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...Boyner. The Boyner family's retailing business includes many of the world's top brands, from high-end names such as Prada and Bottega Veneta to more affordable ones like Benetton. Along with their competitors, the Boyners have been on a roll. New shopping malls have sprung up across the country, especially in Istanbul, where some of the most recent examples were deliberately aimed at upscale, upwardly mobile clients. The Boyners have fully participated in this boom; for luxury goods alone, they doubled their retail space over the past two years. But now luxury is taking a fall, and sales...
...dissatisfaction with the central government. The Taliban has capitalized on widespread disillusion with corrupt, centrally appointed officials to recruit to its cause. Few Afghans feel that they have an adequate outlet for settling grievances, like land disputes, so they are more likely to turn to Taliban courts that have sprung up in government vacuums. Real reconciliation, says Nathan, should be taking place at the grass roots, with Afghans who have become alienated from the government. If they can be persuaded that the government is looking after their needs, they are less likely to support the Taliban...
Rachel Getting Married Directed by Jonathan Demme; rated R; out now Kym (Anne Hathaway) gets sprung from an asylum just in time to upset her large family at the multicultural wedding of her sister (Rosemarie DeWitt). This haphazard drama offers insights into the tensions and tendernesses of any wedding weekend, though it sometimes seems as long as one. Bill Irwin is a dear as the girls' father...
Susan Glisson, the executive director of Ole Miss's William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, notes that a smattering of groups working against racial strife have sprung up in recent years and that any viable candidate for student-body president must now include race reconciliation as part of his or her platform. Still, Glisson admits that racial tension "is a substantial problem...
...explain the benjamin baths he takes to clean off after a hard day’s work in the studio. But “Tha Carter II” was dropped three years ago, and in the interim, Wayne stepped up his game and promoted himself heavily with mixtapes. Sprung from the mind of the drug-addled, five-foot-six, dreadlocked Wayne, “Tha Carter III” has no shortage of mind-bending metaphors and turns of phrase, and Lil’ Wayne is as successful a rapper as he is a self-promoter and pop icon...