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From his roots as a comedy writer to political pundit, radio host, best-selling author and, of course, Bill O'Reilly's longstanding bête noire, Al Franken has had many different roles. His latest: the subject of a low-budget indie documentary, God Spoke, rolling out in theaters this week. TIME's Jeffrey Ressner talked to the loquacious liberal just hours before Franken dashed off to a Democratic National Committee event...
...mandated austerity, but the major luxury brands hadn't made inroads. A market was there for the taking, but Chan couldn't find a design team willing to stick it out in a steamy, crowded Chinese city where the foreign population numbered in the dozens and not many locals spoke English. By 1994 he had worked with a few designers, and he persuaded his wife and her younger sister to give Xiamen a six-month try. "The deal," says Fiona, "was, if we didn't like it, we'd move home." Tia, who had been attending classes at Parsons School...
...first, both sisters had doubts about the sanity of their move. Neither had ever been to China or spoke Chinese. They understood little about their customers. "Our first season, we did a forest green for fall," Fiona recalls. "Ports had been known for that British look. But people here said, 'What is that? The mailman wears that.'" Meanwhile, Tia struggled with foreign suppliers. "Although Ports had a big reputation in North America, when we came here, we would go to the suppliers and say, 'Now we need our fabrics to come to China.' And they were like...
...Cheney spoke to GOP donors, all of whom had shelled out $2,500 to hear him speak, protestors stood a block away bemoaning the vice president’s presence in the city...
...still shining. This time, of course, the warm welcome was not for some "unknown", but for the hometown priest-made-pope. Still, with surveys showing faith on the wane on the native soil of the Holy Father, the Pope was doing his best to keep positive as he spoke with reporters just before takeoff on a jet at Rome's Ciampino airport...