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...attitude was not without its downside. His five-year stint at Givenchy was a disaster from the moment he set foot in the atelier and started badmouthing its namesake. Although popular in Britain, he struggled to create collections that Main Street America could sell. Having formerly eschewed accessories and perfumes, he eventually acceded to the ways of the market and released both...
Political analysts say Chinchilla, who takes office May 8, has a talent for dialogue and coalition building, which she'll need when she faces Costa Rica's ultra-fractured Congress. Her center-right credentials set her apart from the other female heads of state in Latin America today: Chile's outgoing President, Michelle Bachelet, is a moderate socialist; Argentina's Cristina Fernández represents her Peronist Party's left wing; and the leading candidate in this year's Brazilian presidential election, Dilma Rousseff, hails from the leftist Workers Party. At the same time, Kaufman notes, Chinchilla follows a string...
...hole up in back alleys; one church alone shelters 300 people on any given night. The neighborhood also hosts the first supervised heroin-injection location in North America. "For the city to let that occur while building the Village - that's the height of irresponsibility," says Shaw. Vancouver has set aside 250 of the 1,100 Village units for low-income residents, though some people fear that the city will be forced to put even those on the market to refill its coffers. (Watch a video on how ski jumpers train...
With just two days before the Winter Olympics are set to get under way in Vancouver, NBC officials should be celebrating the onset of a much needed prime-time-ratings boost. But now they may be cursing their continuing bad luck. That's because American skier Lindsey Vonn, the blond speed beauty whose quest for five medals over the two weeks of the Olympics was supposed to boost ratings to Michael Phelps-ian levels, might be forced to sit out these Games. (See 25 Winter Olympic athletes to watch...
...Given all the antics we've seen out of overmarketed athletes in the past, it's only natural to at least wonder if Vonn is overstating her injury to either give herself a built-in excuse for falling short or set up a heroic tale of overcoming injury that American sports fans will devour. Her public personality doesn't suggest she'd ever hatch that kind of plan. And for her part, Vonn laughs off any suggestion that she's playing some kind of game. "Wow, I honestly have never thought of that," she says. "This is no way trying...