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Boucheron In the mid-19th century, Frédéric Boucheron became the first Paris jeweler to process diamonds, later etching royal crests into the precious stones at the request of various royal families. The practice stopped when some clients found it necessary to unload their gems for cash. Boucheron now has a different jewel - perfume. Its first, in a bottle shaped like a ring, was a swift success. Today most of the company's dollars come from scents...
...outlook and attitudes toward life, there are a lot of shared values among young Europeans. It has to do with a sense of being tolerant and open, and a willingness to try new things." It's no longer unusual for someone like the French novelist Frédéric Biegbeder, 35, to profess little desire to leave France but also "feel totally European. And that means I don't give a damn about France. I go along with John Lennon: 'Imagine there's no countries...
...taken a big hit. In France, where the large chains account for some two-thirds of all beef sales, turnover was down nearly 40% at the end of January. Many local butcher shops, on the other hand, have actually seen an increase in business. Paris' Frédéric Juré, who proudly displays photos and ID certificates of the cows he carves up, is now selling more beef than ever. "'Mad cow' disease has been a great good," he says. "It has breathed life back into the small butcher shops...
...play ball at all will be another challenge for Napster, which has fought the labels aggressively in court. Now it needs to make nice, and get the companies to agree to license their songs. "The content partners are everything--they're the dealmakers or the deal breakers," says Ric Dube, an analyst with Webnoize. "Without them, all the technology in the world won't make a difference...
...Ric Ocasek, David Copperfield and Donald Trump are all first-ballot Hall of Famers in the "Weird-Looking Guy with Gorgeous Model" celebrity- romance competition, but a rumored new matchup could top them all. The hot gossip out of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week was that GENE SPERLING, former director of the National Economic Council, is something of an item with supermodel NAOMI CAMPBELL. The duo attended the forum's gala soiree arm in arm, and Sperling, 40, even issued the standard non-denial denial: "We're just friends." To be fair, Sperling...