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...also a more nefarious possibility: label fraud, something the industry's umbrella group, Cashmere & Camel Hair Manufacturers Institute, takes very seriously. Karl Spilhaus, the group's president, approaches the task of uncovering ersatz cashmere as soberly as an old-master specialist does in debunking fake Rembrandts. He has brought suit against stores for selling products labeled "100% cashmere" that he claims are in fact mere blends...
...incongruity of Tony Bennett next to K.D. Lang and the Red Hot Chili Peppers made for great gossip-page photographs and generated enough heat to get Dad his own MTV Unplugged, and that's where Tony really shook things up. He stood by the piano in his shiny suit and sang the exact same standards he has been singing since Larry King was a boy. People marveled--What a voice! What taste! What class! But the only thing that had changed was the context...
...sparked the trend. Long-term incentives--mostly stock options--are for the first time the norm for senior positions around the world, according to Towers Perrin's latest compensation survey. Credit (or blame) can be given to U.S. multinationals. "It got noticed, and local companies had to start following suit," says Leon Potgieter, managing principal of Towers Perrin's Global Consulting Group. Performance-based pay is spreading too, reaching further down in the corporate ranks to the likes of accountants in countries from Germany to Taiwan. "It's proven to be a good thing the past few years, when...
Although The Crimson, and Harvard students, alumni and law school faculty members, have all denounced the University’s decision not to join a constitutional law suit challenging the Solomon Amendment (which threatens the cutoff of federal funds if military recruiters are barred from campus) there is something they can do by themselves which may be far more effective...
...incongruity of Tony Bennett next to k.d. lang and the Red Hot Chili Peppers made for great gossip-page photographs and generated enough heat to get Dad his own MTV Unplugged, and that's where Tony really shook things up. He stood by the piano in his shiny suit and sang the exact same standards he has been singing since Larry King was a boy. People marveled - What a voice! What taste! What class! But the only thing that had changed was the context. A decade later, singers looking to revive their careers are still picking over Danny Bennett...