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...years ago, she says she "focused on everything I could find that had initials." Mass-producing customized goods isn't easy. Stephanie Hirsch, owner and designer of Inca, which makes initialed caps, visors and swimwear, says her best sellers are A, B, C, D and S. But she will whip up the occasional Q or Z to order. "Wouldn't you know," she says, "that the one thing that blows out of the store is the most difficult to produce?" --By Charla Krupp
...evening's host, a silver star (make that diamond; it's the 75th) for some "A" material in the opening monologue, and for deflecting both the solemnity of the occasion and the political passions simmering in the crowd. The ever-cool star was a lion tamer with the whip of irony...
...inspiring fable, the story of Jackie Chan's youth is up there with Abraham Lincoln's or Harry Potter's. Boy is born in Hong Kong to poor refugees from the mainland. Boy enters opera school, where he trembles and thrives under his master's whip hand. Boy puts these hard lessons to use in films, becoming a would-be successor to Bruce Lee and finally his own man: an international star and, quite possibly, the most famous living Asian...
...giant “PDAs” sign. (That’s “Public Displays of Affection,” for those not hip to the lingo.) Using a PDA is a public display of arrogance: I’ve seen college guys whip out their PDAs and compare them like old men swapping fishing stories. (“Check out the size on this baby!”) As for me, I don’t trust myself enough to own an expensive gadget that contains all of my personal information. And using PDAs to take notes...
...Although the President vowed that "no matter what the whip count is, we're calling for the vote" at the Security Council, British reports suggest that a compromise may be in the works, via a British amendment to set new deadlines and new specific demands on Iraqi disarmament. That suggests that military action may be delayed, possibly until the end of March. But listening to President Bush's promises on everything from providing humanitarian assistance to Iraqi refugees to doing everything possible to avoid Iraqi civilian casualties, there could be little doubt that with or without UN authorization, he plans...