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...many totally perfect, gorgeous hair-body-skin-face-teeth can you see and still have it spark your interest?" asks Trey Laird, president and executive creative director of Laird + Partners, the ad agency that handles Donna Karan. "There's something about a real person--and you can say celebrities aren't real people, but they are. They just happen to have a very visible job. They're not perfect, they have a life, and they make it a little more emotional, give it more of an interest, more of an intrigue. It makes it real...
...Number of Chinese fireworks plants that have been closed for fear that a heat wave could spark explosions...
...charged with treason and bombings unrelated to Bali. A conviction for the revered cleric?who denies that JI exists, although he did concede late in his trial that he believed attacks on Christian churches were permissible if the churches were proven enemies of Islam?could further enrage militants and spark more reprisals...
...there's pressure on Alcan to raise its price. The deal may not happen at all. Peterson at Thomson Financial says hostile takeover bids have a very low success rate: only one in five gets done. But stock markets have a short attention span. If the bid helps to spark a merger revival, everyone will have moved on by the time the deal runs into trouble. Is that about to happen? "There are many rumored deals out there," Peterson says. "But it's not a seismic turn of events. We'll have to see if one good day turns into...
...congregations offer the necessary 18-or 24-month adult preparatory courses in Hebrew, ritual and Scripture. Both Reform and Conservative movements offer guides to facilitate the adult rite. Such ceremonies, says Jack Wertheimer, provost at the Conservative arm's Jewish Theological Seminary in Manhattan, have not only "generated the spark of transformation within individuals [but] transformed congregational life...