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...integrated education and segregated health services. But the novel's ID cards, casual racial abuse and media stereotyping are topical in Britain today. "Especially with the rhetoric you get about asylum seekers," says Blackman. In seeking to get beneath the skin of terrorism, she is confronting an issue as raw as race. Although Noughts and Crosses was written before Sept. 11, the interest of U.S. publishers disappeared soon after that day. "They got cold feet," says Blackman. Nonetheless, in Knife Edge, the author plunges deeper still into the mindset of a terrorist. Callum's brother, Jude, a die-hard cell...
Ahrendts considered being a designer, but when she got to college she realized that other students possessed more raw talent. She excelled in recognizing good designs and figuring out which ones could be sold to which stores and at what price. This is not unlike her role at Claiborne, which runs 32 clothing and accessory brands--including Dana Buchman, Ellen Tracy, Kenneth Cole New York, Mexx, Monet and recent acquisition Juicy Couture--and had sales of $3.2 billion in the first three quarters of 2003. Ahrendts manages a good portion of the women's labels...
...Hagan’s allure lies not just in raw talent and occasional flashes of brilliance, but in the consistently solid efforts he has mounted while at Breck High School...
...special goats, the majority of which live in the coldest regions of China and Mongolia. Then the fiber has to be shipped to factories experienced in its production?the best are in Italy and Scotland?where it is spun into yarn, dyed and woven. The scarcity of the raw material has historically ensured a high price for the final product, sealing cashmere's reputation as a luxury fabric...
...late June Kay thought that perhaps Saddam had a modern, just-in-time delivery system for WMD and had been able to dispose of both weapons and raw materials quickly when the U.S. invaded. But then he realized that Saddam wasn't "even that organized." Looking back on it, Kay said, "this wasn't a blinding flash. It was a slow accretion of evidence that was all pointing in the same direction." Kay was struck that he couldn't find any sign of the logistical network of trucks, drivers and construction workers required of a sophisticated weapons program. "If that...