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Goings On

Italian brands target Chinese sports and leisure market

[2018-02-10 08:34]

From cableway and trail maintenance to ski gear and ski wear, Italian brands are eyeing China's booming winter sports and leisure market.

To avoid a guess, learn a key fact

[2018-02-03 06:42]

Sherlock Holmes said, "I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."

Best bets

[2018-01-27 06:44]

National Center for the Performing Arts Drama Hamlet

With voids, win many trump tricks

[2018-01-27 06:44]

Ronald Reagan said, "The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

I want to give haute couture a kind o f wink, a sense of humor - to introduce the whole sense of freedom one sees in the street into high fashion; to give couture the same provocative and arrogant look as punk -but of course with luxury and dignity and style." So said fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in 1983 on the eve of his exhibition at the Costume Institute of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, its first-ever show devoted to a living designer.

Saved by a Violin

[2018-01-13 08:07]

Between 1915 and 1918, many Christian Armenians were killed but one young man survived thanks to a violin. He didn't know how to use it, but thanks to that instrument, which was given by a friend, he could pretend to be part of an ensemble that was going on tour and therefore he escaped to Lebanon.