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...strip out all the inside dope, which arrives in fascinating little flashes as Liz identifies obscure Russian ammunition, jokes about the macho idiots in MI6 (Britain's CIA) and delicately recruits a young Muslim agent. Most striking, though, is that with the terrorist threat mounting and untold lives at stake, Liz seems to be enjoying herself. "Well," says Rimington, "she is loosely autobiographical...
...there is still far more at stake than the Bulldogs’ battle with Princeton for second-to-last place...
...already has some experience with trying to keep a line going after the designer has departed. In November designer Jil Sander walked out of her Prada-owned company for the second time. Back in 1999, less than six months after striking a deal with Lang, Bertelli bought a 75% stake in Sander's coveted ready-to-wear label. The deal made the Prada Group Italy's largest private luxury-goods conglomerate. Echoing Lang, Sander said she had picked Prada from a string of suitors because her company and Prada shared a "common understanding of fashion." Just four months later, Sander...
...options that will vest when the ink on the deal dries. Famed investor Warren Buffett has also scored big, reaping a paper profit of $567 million for Berkshire Hathaway, which owns 96 million Gillette shares. "It's a dream deal," he said in a statement, pledging to raise his stake to 100 million shares as a vote of confidence...
...Kurds, election day was as much an opportunity to claim their stake in a new Iraq as to affirm their reluctance to be part of Iraq at all. In tents outside official polling stations, a movement demanding a referendum on Kurdish independence collected signatures with permission of the main Kurdish political parties, whose voters proclaim their desire for independence even as party leaders look to arrange the next best thing in the form of maximum autonomy from Baghdad. The flashpoint, of course, comes in cities where Kurds and Arabs (and in some cases Turkmen) compete for control, none more...