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...celebrities, dressing for court is always a trial. Ever since shoplifter Winona Ryder wore those demure headbands, stars' accessories have been making case history...
...journalistic practices and governing-board oversight, but offered an apology so tepid that Downing Street sought more. The next day the Director General, Greg Dyke, also resigned, but he too felt angry and denounced Hutton's conclusions, which many commentators were already calling a whitewash. The acting chairman, Richard Ryder, declared he had "no hesitation in apologizing unreservedly for our errors and to the individuals whose reputations were affected by them." Blair quickly accepted the apology and said he planned to "move on." But spontaneous walkouts of BBC staff chanting "We Want Greg" - and unexpected support for him from Conservatives...
...Auto-ID Center planned to issue its first RFID privacy guidelines, promising clear notification, choice and confidentiality. Saffo thinks that RFID may save us all some headaches in the future. It certainly might have helped a certain actress caught shoplifting in Beverly Hills, he says. "If only Winona Ryder had waited a couple of years, floor sensors would have detected her purchases as she headed out the door, and just charged her credit card." --With reporting by Steve Barnes/Little Rock, Dan Cray/Los Angeles, Chaim Estulin/Hong Kong, Jeff Israely/Rome, Nadia Mustafa/New York, David Schwartz/Phoenix and Nathan Thornburgh/Boston
Designers are using celebrities to invoke a new message: authenticity, even antiglamour. This spring, Jacobs used Winona Ryder in ads for his secondary line, Marc by Marc Jacobs, after she wore his designs at her shoplifting trial. Director Sofia Coppola designed a line of fall bags for the same label. And this season a severe-looking J. Lo stars in Jacobs' Louis Vuitton ads. Then there's the famous Madonna Gap commercial and Coke's recent "Real" campaign starring real couple Courteney Cox and David Arquette...
...decade, predicts NBA commissioner David Stern, "there will be multiple NBA teams in Europe," either as regular expansion franchises or in a separate league. Developers are starting to build modern European arenas to help promote expansion of the game. Some observers have suggested staging a Ryder Cup of pro basketball, with U.S. stars battling a team of their international colleagues, perhaps in place of the traditional East-West All Star matchup, as the National Hockey League now does...