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...Viktor & Rolf also touched on the theme of formality and showed their collection of Ice Capades-inspired clothes against the backdrop of a full orchestra and Rufus Wainwright singing "Somewhere Over The Rainbow." A pair of ballroom dancers opened the show and four pairs of male-on-male ballroom dancers closed it. The purpose was to launch their new men's fragrance, Antidote, but this witty Amsterdam-based duo are not afraid to add a bit of social commentary to their work...
...family-owned company popped up on the financial pages. An Italian financial daily compared cash-flow data and estimated growth potential and proclaimed Diesel the top candidate among Italian fashion companies for a public offering. Published reports in Europe had Diesel scooping up designers Sophia Kokosolaki and Viktor & Rolf, recalling the Margiela acquisition. Goldschmied, the former partner who remains a Rosso confidant, predicts something big is in the works. "Finally, finally, he has made a very important strategic decision. He could be the owner of a group that's a leader in the next wave of fashion...
...police may have little choice in their efforts to weed out a growing number of terror suspects who have emerged from within law-abiding British Muslim communities. "These third generation terrorists may receive their motivation and stimulation from Al Qaeda but, on the operative level, they act independently," says Rolf Tophoven, head of the Essen-based Institute for Terrorism Research and Security Policy and Germany's leading expert on international terrorism. "They have been radicalized and turned to a kind of perverted Islam." Since homegrown terrorist groups "have metastasized in many places around the world," he says, "identifying, tracing...
When the plans were discovered on Bokhowa's hard drive, Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, the CIA's operational chief for WMD and terrorism, and his counterpart, "Leon," who heads the analytical side of that same division, went into something just shy of a panic. Leon instantly pulled together a team to make a model of the device that he could eventually test...
After the Oval Office briefing, Bush ordered alerts sent through the U.S. government. Tenet held meetings with the intelligence chiefs. Rolf and Leon showed the device to the relevant people in law enforcement and other intelligence services. The word had to be spread. The device was unstoppable - for people walking onto subway cars, railroad trains or through crowded, enclosed areas of any kind. Selective awareness, under intense standards of secrecy, seemed to be the only response. (See the top 10 inept terrorist plots...