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...salvation of haute couture. After all, if you can afford a $20,000 dress these days, you should be laughing. Yohji Yamamoto showed his ready-to-wear collection during haute- couture week, months ahead of October's pr?t-a-porter shows. It's the latest in a string of avant-garde moves from a very avant-garde designer. He also announced he'd be designing a line of clothing to go with the shoes he produces for Adidas. No wonder the party to celebrate his new book, Talking to Myself, was packed with admiring designers. For the last 10 years...
...administration started the process hoping to merely calm a jittery stock market and reassure Americans that the economy - and their 401(k) pension plans - were sound. "We needed to do something to settle the uncertainty," says one senior official. But before the White House could address the string of scandals that have sapped confidence in American business, it has had to answer old questions about the president's own run-ins with the corporate cops while a director of Harken Energy...
...mildly, Malone's European strategy is a contrarian play. But that's what he has always sought. Now that many cable companies have exhausted themselves and the patience of their bankers by trying to string copper wire and coaxial cable from the North Sea to the Baltic to the Mediterranean, he can come in and scoop up the fruits of their labors for pennies on the euro. "What seems to be cheap seems to get cheaper as one waits," he quipped, with his typically dry sense of humor, at the recent shareholder meeting of Liberty Media, the onetime TCI programming...
...investigation. But just when all hope seemed lost, it was, ironically, the Kennedy name that revived it. The 1991 rape trial of William Kennedy Smith created a voracious demand for Kennedy scuttlebutt, and when the trial was over, the media turned to the Moxley case for more. A string of books, articles and TV shows about the murder followed. Goaded by the media coverage, detectives began reinterviewing people connected with the crime, gathering new evidence. By 1998 they had found enough to convene a grand jury. On Jan. 18, 2000, a judge indicted Michael, by then a 39-year...
Actually, Radcliffe will be looking to snap a string of bronze finishes at Sprints. How many years has the stretch lasted, you ask? That’s right—three...