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...Back in 1999, less than six months after striking a deal with Lang, Bertelli bought a 75% stake in Sander's coveted ready-to-wear label. The deal made the Prada Group Italy's largest private luxury-goods conglomerate. Echoing Lang, Sander said she had picked Prada from a string of suitors because her company and Prada shared a "common understanding of fashion." Just four months later, Sander stormed out of the house she had founded 27 years earlier when she was 30, claiming she was fed up with Bertelli's controlling ways. She later returned, but the reunion...
...troops are under attack every day from foreign fighters in Iraq. But just how many of those insurgents are coming from Europe? A string of recent arrests suggests that a small but determined band of extremists is exporting young Muslim men in Europe to Iraq for jihad. Last week, German authorities arrested two men in Mainz: one an Iraqi who police say is an al-Qaeda-trained militant and recruiter of local Muslim youths for the insurgency, the other a Palestinian who is allegedly one of his recruits. In Paris, police arrested 11 people they say were involved...
...lost his memory in an apparent UFO encounter but gained the power to converse with cats. Also present is Johnnie Walker (of whisky fame, in tails and top hat), who kills felines to make flutes from their souls, and Colonel Sanders (the fried-chicken guy, in white suit and string tie), who moonlights as a back-alley pimp and supernatural fixer...
...restore your sense of wonder of the inner harbor - and you elevate the experience to a marvelous new level. Conclude it with a gourmet meal for two in the gilded lobby of the Edwardian-era Peninsula hotel - not more than a minute from the ferry pier - while a string quartet plays in the gallery overhead, and you have one of the world's consummate travel experiences. That's the object of the Cruise and Dine package, launched by the Peninsula in conjunction with Hong Kong's "Star" Ferry Co., and it's one that neither first-timers to Hong Kong...
...Crimson would not strike again despite a string of close calls in the third period—a close-range rebound missed by senior Brendan Bernakevitch, a pair of wide-right slapshots by freshman Mike Taylor, a blistering offering from Welch that was denied and a frustratingly close chance by sophomore Dylan Reese with less than a minute remaining...