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Competing for our attention, on the table is a giant, 33-lb. version of the company's new star product, the Xilion, which in its oversize form suggests a fortune teller's ball. The commercial version is pea size, perfect for necklaces and dangling earrings. True, it's brilliant, throwing off hundreds of sparkles?but unique? Exactly how unique can a rhinestone...
Rosso credits his hardscrabble upbringing on the farm for his determination and pragmatism, including a meticulous attention to logistics widely admired by competitors. Plus he has a real flair for marketing. Today Diesel is still less than half the size of the Levi's brand (a separate high-end manufacturing division, Staff International, does an additional $114 million in sales), but it's fast growing, highly profitable and so far has managed the delicate balance Renzo evokes when he says his goal is to be the "coolest of the biggest...
...into ultra-heat-resistant pot holders, super-slippery spatulas, whisks and colorful baking pans. Now Sur La Table has some gadgets that take advantage of silicone's flexibility while saving on storage space. The POP COLANDER, POP STRAINER and CHEF'N SLEEKST0R collapsible measuring cups pop open into full-size utensils for use but collapse completely flat for easy storage. Silicone's continuing kitchen evolution can save you from having to fumble for the right lid for your pots. The UNIVERSAL NONSTICK SILICONE LID is a one-size-fits-all pot topper that can also serve as a spatter guard...
...case of such overpowering emotions, had those on our side fighting the so-called war on terrorism not made certain tactical decisions early on. As the dusty rabble of Afghan fighters moved to the newly opened Guantánamo in early 2002 and the first al-Qaeda operative--the pint-size Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi--was picked up, debate raged inside the Administration as to what would produce the highest-quality "yield" from interrogation with the greatest speed. There was fear of a second-wave attack, after all, and U.S. intelligence was panicked. On one side was the FBI, which...
What the President wouldn't say, especially in a political season, is that he and the rest of the government have learned quite a bit from their early errors. What is widely known inside the Administration is that once we caught our first decent-size fish--Abu Zubaydah, in March 2002--we used him as an experiment in righteous brutality that in the end produced very little. His interrogation, according to those overseeing it, yielded little from threats and torture. He named countless targets inside the U.S. to stop the pain, all of them immaterial. Indeed, think back...