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...they are multi-brand conglomerates. Of the single brands, for menswear only, Hugo Boss is as big as its two nearest competitors, Giorgio Armani and Ermenegildo Zegna, combined. The company still makes 1.6 million suits a year, but that's old news; it now reflects a wider cultural shift and has repositioned itself from a suit-driven menswear company to a lifestyle company with womenswear, accessories and, under license, fragrance, eyewear and watches. (Jewelry made by Swarovski is about to launch, and children's wear will arrive for spring...
...latest protests may mark a more serious shift towards confrontation, however. Tsering notes that this is the first time major demonstrations have taken place simultaneously inside and outside of Tibet, and that the two communities seem to be drawing encouragement from each other. There's also a sense that Tibet is fast losing the culture many Tibetans are so desperate to preserve, and that the prospects for compromise are receding. "The crucial factor is the age of the Dalai Lama," says Sangay. "Unlike the ?50s and ?80s, Tibetan people inside and outside are very well informed of events and what...
...Monten and Iyengar describe, the Army had pursued a strategy of seek and destroy with respect to terrorists since General David H. Petraeus took command of American forces in Iraq. This change in leadership represented a measurable, though incomplete, shift in strategy, according to Monten and Iyengar. [SEE CORRECTION...
Ideas change the world. The power of a new idea is the engine that transforms the way we live and think. (Our country was founded on one.) It was almost 50 years ago that the philosopher Thomas Kuhn coined the term paradigm shift--the moment when our worldview fundamentally changes because of a new idea, as when people understood that the sun does not revolve around the earth or that climate change is altering the way we would all have to live...
...suitcase in question came into Telpuk's life in the wee hours of a late shift she'd been asked to work as a security officer in Argentina's National Aeronautics Police (PAN), stationed in the VIP section of a Buenos Aires airport. Scanning the luggage of passengers debarking a flight from Venezuela, she noticed one that was densely packed with rectangular shapes. On inspection, they turned out to be bricks of bank-notes amounting to $790,550. "He didn't seem to be particularly nervous," says Telpuk of the bag's owner, Venzuelan-American businessman Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson...