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...business family, Fiat's struggle to adapt to a shifting global playing field, and a young man's relationship with his famous silver-haired grandfather. The death of this formidable figure and of Gianni's younger brother Umberto Agnelli, both from cancer within a 16-month span, created the vacuum that forced Elkann - the eldest child of Gianni Agnelli's daughter Margherita and French-Italian writer Alain Elkann - to step to the fore ahead of schedule. He did so amid the company's two-year crisis that came, in 2002, from weak management and damaged brand image, and forced...
When men and women are sent into unjustifiable wars, when soldiers see their buddies get blown to pieces for no good reason, when there is a vacuum in moral leadership, then decent people become capable of horrific acts. We thought we learned this painful lesson in Vietnam, but we are sadly revisiting it. The few bad eggs are not the brave men and women in the combat zones of Iraq but the cowardly men and women occupying the White House...
...metrosexual: I'm lying on my side on a black leather lounger, dressed in a yukata robe that ends about mid-thigh, soothing New Age music on the stereo, a burning candle jammed in my ear. My skin care specialist explains that the hollow candle will create a gentle vacuum to draw out excess ear wax, impurities, maybe some loose change. I'm somewhat dubious-with a 20-cm candle sticking out the side of my head, I feel less like David Beckham than a human birthday cake-but this technique was used by the ancient Egyptians, and a civilization...
...Lempert says that given avian flu and mad cow concerns, many consumers are looking for new forms of protein this summer. Tofu, which has long been popular in Asia, is becoming more common in American supermarkets. Sold in the produce section, often in vacuum packs or rectangular tubs, tofu is healthy, easy to prepare and relatively inexpensive. Nasoya has introduced a line of nine organic tofu varieties, ranging in texture from soft to extra firm. The versatile soy product makes a great base for meatless stir-fries, and can also be used in anything from salads to smoothies...
...nothing new to the Middle East, but this time is dangerously different. Previously, cool heads on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide could look to mediators from the U.S. and Europe to help them choreograph their way out of such a crisis. The Western powers left a diplomatic vacuum when the gave up their traditional mediation role following the election of the Hamas government in January. And the usual mechanism for restraining violence between rival Palestinian groups on the ground - a consensus at the top over the need to maintain national unity - has been replaced by a virtual collision...