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Luxury quotient: Chanel's core businesses in the U.S. look strong, but hot brands cool. Chiquet's merchandising savvy should help keep the 94-year-old brand evergreen...
...Plessy could be set apart in a Louisiana railroad car solely because of his race. It is ironic that, on a Court with only one Southerner and four graduates of Harvard and Yale, only John Marshall Harlan—himself a former slaveowner—dissented with words as evergreen as the cedars of Lebanon: “There is no caste here. Our constitution is color-blind?...
...that Chang shows her years. Effortlessly elegant in black leather pants and a purple Dior sweater, Chang looks like she could play 20, 30 or 40, evergreen in an industry where some actresses are washed up while they're still in pigtails. Though she just hit the half-century mark last July, she demurs at the thought of a 30:40:50. "I don't like sequels," Chang says. "There's so much more I can do." Slowing down isn't on her list...
...David Schnarch, author of the book Passionate Marriage and creator of the Crucible Approach to marital therapy, which upends nearly all the conventional tenets of couples counseling. He says he is the therapist of last resort for many couples who go to his Marriage and Family Health Center in Evergreen, Colo., for an intensive four-day session: "The worse shape your marriage is in, the more this is the approach of choice." Nor does he recommend that a warring couple break up--that's just "one way therapists can bury their errors...
Festooning an evergreen with ornaments is one of the universal customs of the season. Germany can claim credit for the modern version of the Tannenbaum, and Queen Victoria's German-born consort, Prince Albert, helped popularize the practice in Britain and beyond. But evergreen trees, wreaths and garlands were also used by the ancient Egyptians, Chinese and Hebrews to symbolize eternal life. So whatever your reason for deciding to bring a bit of the forest into your home this season, if you're in the market for a 1.8-m pine, balsam or fir, here's what you can expect...