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...Bonpoint is completely different," says Richard Alibert, president of the company. "We are focused only on children and on dressing them every day." Although making kids' clothes might seem to be a simple matter of adapting design and manufacturing techniques to smaller sizes, he and others say it's much trickier. To cover the 0-to-14-year-old market requires 25 sizes with drastically different designs depending on whether a baby is lying down or starting to sit up, or whether he or she is still in diapers. Most items must be washable, and they must be comfortable?...
...Kenedy Ranch project is in limbo after local officials denied a $100 million local tax abatement, and Hunt vows there will never be a wind farm on the King Ranch. The 80 or so descendants of Capt. Richard King who share the King Ranch brand, land and businesses want to preserve the fabled ranching legacy and the land. The two ranches sit in the path of "the River of Birds," the flyway that brings birds from Canada to Mexico, including whooping cranes. Birding enthusiasts are just a few of the eco-tourists, along with hunters and fishermen, that are creating...
...Richard Natonski, who will brief the House and Senate armed services committees behind closed doors, has experience investigating alleged Marine wrongdoing in Iraq. Critics claimed a videotape of a Marine shooting a prone Iraqi inside a mosque in 2005 was an example of a war crime, but Natonski disagreed. As the senior officer responsible for deciding how to handle the case, he cleared the Marine, saying the Iraqi used an insurgent's "common tactic" when he concealed his left arm behind his head and "feigned death." Insurgents would often then "rise to continue fighting." In what many sources say what...
Tufts University President Lawrence S. Bacow, Stanford Provost John W. Etchemendy, University of Cambridge head Alison F. Richard, Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons, and Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman were among the prominent figures in higher education nominated for Harvard’s top post...
...learned of Gates's nomination to be defense chief. "He's a terrible micromanager and I just can't see him existing in that Pentagon structure." But Gates, 63, has won friends among both Republican and Democratic foreign policy gurus. "Bob Gates is a pragmatist and problem solver," says Richard Holbrooke, U.N. ambassador during the Clinton Administration...