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Like two women fighting over the last hot bag at a department-store sale, Coach and Louis Vuitton, makers of luxury handbags, are in a tussle--over Japanese shoppers. In early March, Coach complained to the Japanese Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) that LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton was, among other things, strong-arming department stores, threatening to pull the Louis Vuitton brand if Coach opened or expanded within shops where Vuitton already sells...
...estimated 30 tons, from 20 the year before. This season the U.S. is facing its own Chinese-truffle deluge. A strong euro has sent the price of French-truffle imports up 30%, to $1,800 per kg wholesale, in the past year, leading some restaurants and gourmet-store owners to substitute Eastern truffles for Périgords. Purists are outraged. "You can't compare the two," sniffs Guy Monier, who sells French truffles for $2,300 per kg at his Paris shop and has seen the Chinese fungus masquerading as the French variety in nearby supermarkets. "The Chinese import is just...
...spuming belligerence, can suck a cigarette to cinders in one deep breath, and has a lion's roar scream that rattles windows a continent away. Into the alley wanders Sing (Chow), a loser punk who is desperate to be an Axe man. But destiny has another, redemptive scenario in store. This accident-prone scoundrel has the makings of a natural-born kung fu genius--just the fellow to do battle against that legendary killer the Beast (Leung Siu-lung...
...hard to do your best thinking when your feet hurt. That's true even for geniuses. On a crisp fall morning back in 1952, Peter Hulit was tending to business at his shoe store on Nassau Street--the venerable main drag of Princeton, N.J.--when he got an emergency call. Helen Dukas, Albert Einstein's secretary-housekeeper, was on the line. Could Hulit come to the physicist's home? "Dr. Einstein's shoes are hurting him," Dukas said. Recalls Hulit: "I'd never made a house call before or since. But this was Einstein...
...papabile. For years it was a legendary scoop in TIME circles. Jordan recalled last week that the first tip that the next pope might be Wojtyla did not come from on high, but was given to correspondent Roland Flamini by the young owner of a small Catholic book store. But back then, without a press blackout, they could at least run the name by a Cardinal or two. This year, we won't be making predictions in the magazine, but tune in tomorrow on TIME.COM for my top 10 papal candidates...