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Cavalli is as famous for his prints as he is for his full-on approach: think giraffe spots on chiffon dresses, beaded psychedelic silk-satin shirts and rhinestone-studded jeans. Stars like Beyoncé Knowles, Jennifer Lopez and Lenny Kravitz cannot get enough of it. Valentino may be known as the chic one among Italian designers, but Cavalli is the playboy. Dressed in his uniform of jeans and black leather jacket, he's a rugged-looking 65-year-old with a healthy head of salt-and-pepper hair who has the former Miss Universe wife, the beautiful children, the Tuscan palazzo...
...aquamarines, mirrorlike smoky quartz ("the stone of depressed people") and a mound of sprinkles identified as multicolored sapphires. "Here's an order," she says. "And here's a problem: the buyer has indicated that for some items she would like two. These are stones; they occur in nature. I cannot get the same twice. But Justine will try." Justine Rumeau, De Taillac's right hand of six years, is already sorting through citrines to find the best pairs...
...duck into a room where four men execute pieces in the traditional enamel and kundan technique, in which narrow ribbons of pure gold are wedged around the stone. "The gold is so pure the workers cannot touch it," Kasliwal says. He nods at a packet of uncut rubies. "Burmese, exceptional quality. They already have so much life," he says, valuing them at $1.5 million, and then he takes a call from the royal family of Qatar...
...permitted to own nuclear weapons, under the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), is proffered as a reason to refuse the newly proposed pact. That treaty’s outmoded and arbitrary distinction between nuclear “haves” and “have-nots” cannot, however, justify objections to Bush’s proposal to diversify India’s energy sources. A stable democracy explicitly dedicated to a policy of minimum nuclear deterrence, India has proven itself responsible in its wielding of nuclear capabilities...
...criticize the role that Christianity plays in a university that is officially unaffiliated, Gomes says, “What annoys some people is that the symbols are still very evident...We have a divinity school, I’m the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals. The Christian identity cannot be, and in my opinion, should not be, eradicated. We founded the place, we’re here, and I’m grateful that we’re surrounded by other entities, but I don’t apologize for the fact that there’s a church...