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...descendant of the founder, Louis-Ulysse Chopard, she has been looking for ways to expand the brand beyond its watchmaking roots. In 1976 she came up with the concept of Happy Diamonds, now a company signature, wherein 30 diamonds float inside a man's watch. It was a huge hit and an opening to the bigger market of fine jewelry. "My father collected clowns, so I designed one with Happy Diamonds in the stomach, and that was the beginning of our jewelry," she says...
...Aguilera: Nobody thinks that the Harvard administration is going to end the war. It has to be a collective source of action all across the nation, a huge mobilization of students, raising our voices, coming together, and doing something on a broader scale. In the past, Harvard has really been a hotbed of activism. Harvard does have this name and the media does latch on to that. So if we’re going to stir stuff up, this is where we have a lot of leverage. If 500 Harvard kids get arrested for protesting the war, that will...
...sense, and that we could get stuck there as we have. I think most people thought it wasn't necessarily a great idea, but it would be relatively easy militarily and we wouldn't get stuck there. I think what we're seeing now is that it was a huge strategic mistake, that it is bleeding our nation of its resources and of our military strength and that it is really very different than what people thought it was going...
...come back later and say they don't feel well, it isn't "Well that couldn't be from your war experience." This has been a problem with regard to Agent Orange from Vietnam, Gulf War Syndrome from the first Gulf War. We've been involved, frankly, in a huge range of issues concerning veterans making sure they don't get overcharged on their cellphones, and making sure that there's some protection from their jobs while they're serving. Most important is health care for veterans...
...have been a place of worship or have astronomical significance. Since Victorian times, it has been popularly linked to New Age beliefs, particularly neo-Druidism - even though archeologists have shown that it was built long before Druidism arrived in England. Still, summer solstice gatherings by New Agers once drew huge crowds to Stonehenge. Fearing that the stones were at risk, English Heritage roped them off in 1977. In June 1985, 1,300 police officers confronted about 140 carloads of New Age travelers heading for Stonehenge, prompting the "Battle of the Beanfield." Since then, controlled gatherings within the monoliths have been...