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...though nothing like the torrid 20% pace of the past few years. Harley hopes to sell 11,000 V-Rods, which will be available this fall, by the end of this year. That's about 5% of its total annual output. Still, Harley is by no means guaranteed a smooth ride. The V-Rod is a few thousand dollars more expensive than comparable bikes like Honda's hot-selling VTX. And expanding beyond the core franchise is never easy, as Harley learned in the 1970s, when the company's owner at the time, AMF, blanketed the market with poorly designed...
...Marasco is a character straight out of an early David Mamet play: a smooth-talking real estate kingpin whose boyish enthusiasm is at war with his gray-flecked hair. For more than two decades, Marasco, 46, has erected shopping centers and sports arenas throughout the Southwest. He never had global ambitions. But then he had a crazy dream: a huge open-air shopping and entertainment complex located in the San Diego suburb of San Ysidro--but connected to Tijuana, Mexico, by its very own 525-ft. pedestrian bridge. Marasco says he wants "to make the whole border-crossing experience full...
...weeks before last friday's Constitutional Court 8-7 acquittal of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of corruption charges, you could see the toll the impending verdict was taking on him. The eyes sagged. The usually smooth skin seemed more wrinkled. The smug smile would occasionally straighten, the corners of his thin-lipped mouth almost turning to a resigned frown. If he was bitter, however, he would never admit it, not to a reporter, nor to his Cabinet, and probably not to his friends. Yet the possibility his tenure would be abbreviated by a guilty ruling had become the defining...
...Nancy Kariuki began using skin-lightening creams aged 18 after she developed a rash on her face. "After a few weeks I noticed where the patch had been was very smooth," says Kariuki, now 30, who works as a production assistant in a Nairobi advertising company. She began applying it every night to her whole face. Her skin grew lighter but every time she was exposed to too much sun "my face went red and three weeks later it would all peel off." Friends told her that the cream may be dangerous but she persisted. Even her maid started...
...Clinton's natural talent runs to the production of silk purses - smooth, self-serving versions of things. Gottlieb will have to work hard to get some genuine sows' ears out of the man - the unadorned, unspun, real stuff that is supposed to be a primary ingredient in a life story: What really happened. Clinton, a genius of self-presentation, may, when pressed, only seem to get real: He will produce sows' ears with sequins on them, shimmering accessories so lovely, in fact, that mere silk purses will go out of fashion...