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...China--focuses on what she knows and feels. In her 2002 directorial debut, My Father and I, she explored the upended Confucian hierarchy of contemporary urban Chinese society. That effort, in which she also played the leading role, was followed last year by A Letter from an Unknown Woman, which takes an Austrian novel, places it in war-torn China and contemplates the universality of unrequited love. "My generation is more focused on internal feelings," she says. "The bigger issues like politics are for the older generation...
...world. In London, the police were called in to Chloé's Sloane Street boutique to discuss security surrounding the arrival of a shipment of bags. Ralph Toledano, Chloé's ceo, took a gamble on Philo. When she was offered the top job, she was a rebellious, unknown assistant with a penchant for gold teeth, diamanté-studded nails and hip-hop. Although many fashion insiders credited her street smarts for Chloé's success during McCartney's tenure, she was not an obvious choice to reinvent a 50-year-old brand. Fashion wasn't even Philo's first...
Ralph Toledano, Chloe's CEO, took a gamble on Philo. When she was offered the top job, she was a rebellious, unknown assistant with a penchant for gold teeth, diamante-studded nails and hip-hop. Although many fashion insiders credited her street smarts for Chloe's success during McCartney's tenure, she was not an obvious choice to reinvent a 50-year-old brand that had not been a fashion must-have for the past 20. (Nor was she an obvious champion for the soft, romantic look she helped revive.) Philo herself seemed surprised, telling people she had been given...
DISCOVERED. A previously unknown ARIA by Johann Sebastian Bach, among a collection of 18th century folio prints that had been removed from a library shortly before it was destroyed by fire last September; by a researcher at the Bach-Archiv foundation; in Weimar, Germany. The piece, for soprano with string or keyboard accompaniment, was written in 1713 when Bach was 28 and is the first composition by him unearthed since the 1975 discovery of new sections of the Goldberg Variations. Although the foundation says the aria isn't a major work, it considers it "a casual piece of exquisite quality...
...Qaeda or associates of bin Laden's, according to the Los Angeles Times. A military board has since used al-Qahtani's identification as a factor in prolonging the detention of some of them. Whether he has won more favorable treatment in return for his cooperation is unknown. But at least one of those he named, a Yemeni, is now claiming in a U.S. federal court that al-Qahtani's statements about him are unreliable because they "appear to have been obtained by the use of torture...