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...great names in fashion, a symbol of luxury, elegance and quality. By the 1980s, however, the label had become tattered and worn, a victim of sloppy manufacturing, countless knockoffs and feuds among members of the Gucci clan. Stylish women chose Chanel suits and Fendi handbags. But Gucci? Never...
Mello finds inspiration in unlikely places. While she was eating dinner one night in a Florence restaurant, a man Mello had never met before showed her a worn-out pigskin Gucci briefcase that he had held on to for 25 years. Gucci no longer sold the case, he told her. Would they consider bringing it back? Mello admired the case, and Gucci will soon manufacture it. "We'd always been known for our briefcases," says Mello. "We want to have that name again...
...never been eager to send its soldiers overseas. Wilson was reluctant to enter World War I. It took the sinking of the Lusitania, at the cost of 128 American lives, to draw him in. Had it not been for Pearl Harbor, America Firsters might have prevailed in keeping the U.S. out of World War II. The Tonkin Gulf incident, in which Washington claimed North Vietnamese patrol boats fired on U.S. warships, provided Lyndon Johnson with a pretext to secure congressional support of the escalation in Vietnam...
...that had no toilet or refrigerator until he was 14. Could it have been such mean circumstances that gave Arnold an edge? He thinks so. "Today in America," he says, "I see kids comfortable, getting everything they want, peaceful minds, no hang-ups. And I realize that stability will never create the hunger it takes to go beyond the limits where others have been. For that, you have to be a little off. Something has to happen in your childhood that you say, 'I'm going to make up for this.' You don't even know what it is. Maybe...
...Democrat after Democrat, including many who early on had heartily supported Bush's handling of the crisis, took the floor to rebut the Administration's witnesses and press them to give economic sanctions against Iraq time to produce results. "If we have war," said Senator Sam Nunn, "we are never going to know whether they would have worked...