Born again

“billions-and-billions served” chain like McDonald‟s. Starbucks — “Charbucks,” to those who complain that its heavily roasted coffee tastes burned — will never rekindle the old romance, these people say. “Has anybody said they came back because people love the coffee again?” asks Bryant Simon, a history professor at Temple University and author of “Everything but the Coffee: Learning About America From Starbucks.” “They came back because they‟re remaking themselves as a brand that competes on value, largely — a brand

| |Once upon a time, in a faraway land, there lived a man who loved the smells of life. Everybody in Paris knows the story of | |Xavier Delavigne, who started one of the most dynamic cosmetics companies of today. Born in 1905, Xavier was a simple man who | |created complex perfumes. He was known as the 'Father of Fragrance', but it was his grandson Bruno who brought international | |recognition to the Delavigne name. Eventually, Bruno transformed Xavier's humble

Andrew BARR expanded the business; launching new products that got pretty popular for many a reason (see the origin of a success part). Hence a new factory site was inaugurated in the east end of Glasgow (later renamed “Gallowgate”). A Brand is Born 1901-1953: 1901 is a key date for BARR Company: it the two businesses of Glasgow and Falkirk introduced this very year their own and secret IRON BREW formula, as it was spelled first. In 1903 Andrew died suddenly, aged 31, being replaced at the head

The narrator declares that the main character of his story will be his nephew Tom, son of his sister June. He loved June very much. She married a man named Christopher Wood and had two children: Tom and Aurora, then got divorced and got married again, with Philip Zorn, who had already a daughter, Pamela. But June died at forty-nine, which the narrator considers as the worst thing happened in his whole life. After her death, he lost contact with June’s family, but at Brightman’s Attic, on May

Kandinsky No one tonight will take the terraced, tangled path That leads to this old house... No one will come, as usual. And yet I am not at all lonely ; For to keep me company in the level sun which floods this ginger-bread balcony Will return again the memory-misted frenzy of an other summer dusk. And the sea at the foot of the cliff which forms the black foundation of this isolated house Must murmur, and swirl, and be sucked back through the rounded rocks, To murmur anew its accompaniment

islamophobie ou humour légitime? The cartoon reprinted here from the time of the Rushdie Affair shows an English couple leaving their local library with a copy of The Satanic Verses. It depends on the assumption that all Muslims are typically Arabs, and again shows Arabs as primitive and unsophisticated. Also, Muslims are now shown not only as rich but also as frightening and threatening, and as present here on the streets of Britain as well out there in geo-politics, though within the frame of a «!funny

fighting during the First World War. Facing the horror of the war, the soldier’s seeked refuges, consolations and evasions. But it is also through patriotism and through the love of their homeland that they found the courage to hold and to fight again and again.   Religion. Belgian society was very catholic at the beginning of the century. Therefore, we can affirm that, in this particular context, religion played an important part during the war. In order to face the torment and the fear of death

nothing at all," added little Amy, with an injured sniff. "We've got Father and Mother, and each other," said Beth contentedly from her corner. The four young faces on which the firelight shone brightened at the cheerful words, but darkened again as Jo said sadly, "We haven't got Father, and shall not have him for a long time." She didn't say "perhaps never," but each silently added it, thinking of Father far away, where the fighting was. Nobody spoke for a minute; then Meg said in an altered

I- His Life On October 20th, 1854, Arthur Rimbaud was born in Charleville, of the captain Frédéric Rimbaud and Vitalie Cuif. He is the second of five children whom will have the couple. At the age of eleven, he enters the municipal school of Charleville. Always the first one of class, he amazes his professors and his companions by his knowledge, but also by his independence and his balance. One of his teacher said of him: “Intelligent, as much as you want, but he had a smile which I don’t like

– SELF CONTROL * - LIPPS INC – FUNKYTOWN ** - MICKAEL JACKSON – BILLY JEAN *** - MICKAEL JACKSON – DON’T STOP ‘TIL YOU GET ENOUGH ** - MODERN TALKING – BROTHER LOUIE ** - N’TRANCE – STAYIN’ ALIVE * - OMD – ENOLA GAY ** - PATRICK HERNANDEZ – BORN TO BE ALIVE ** - QUEEN – A KIND OF MAGIC * - RIGHEIRA – VAMOS A LA PLAYA * - STEVIE WONDER – PART TIME LOVER ** - THE BANGLES – WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN ** - THE BEACH BOYS – A GET AROUND ** - THE BEATLES – TWIST AND SHOUT *** - THE CLASH – SHOULD