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...workers have been drawn to her spot in the vast acres of destruction by a fire fighter's uniform. Civilian clothes blend with the rubble, but reflective bands in the uniforms stand out. There is a uniform just below Genelle: the soft man. It takes 20 long minutes, and then she is saved...
...most of us, airports are the only places where life has really changed since 9/11. The terminal has become a vast theater of the absurd where aspiring passengers line up halfway back to town. The shoes of little old ladies are gravely removed and inspected. Men in suits take their cell phones out of the bag and put their laptop computers into the bag--no, wait, cell phones in and computers out. Random passengers stand spread-eagled while strangers say to them softly, "Now I'm going to run my hands around your waist. Is that all right?" Somewhere unseen...
...vast majority of party members and officials expressed disdain for Lienemann's accusations and stressed the urgency of restoring unity and cohesion. But successive speakers also made it evident that the Socialist Party?like the French left in general?is split between market-friendly "modernizers," such as former Economy Ministers Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Laurent Fabius, and harder leftists like former Employment Minister Martine Aubry and party heavyweight Henri Emmanuelli...
Then there is distribution. In the U.S. 47% of Polo Ralph Lauren's revenues comes from selling to third-party retailers, mostly big American department stores in which Lauren controls a vast amount of floor space. In Europe there are simply not enough department stores to support such a strategy. If Lauren wants to sell in Europe, he will have to build, staff and run his own stores. That's an expensive proposition, in part because the stores his European customers frequent are on expensive streets in the city centers, not in suburban shopping malls...
...such resources are at its disposal. The nascent government is struggling to establish a sense of order. The U.N., international donors and NGOs can't cover the nation's staggering needs, and their resources have been stretched by the largest ever return of refugees?1.6 million to date, the vast majority poor Afghans who have lived in refugee camps in Pakistan and Iran for decades. (An additional 400,000 are expected by the end of the year.) Of the international aid that has come to Afghanistan, 70% to 80% has gone toward immediate humanitarian assistance?food, water, shelter?according...