J. Walter Thompson senior partner Ann Richie shows off her company's Web site, ADiamondIsForever.com. The Web site is meant to tout the beauty of diamonds, not the DeBeers name. DeBeers, which once enjoyed a virtual monopoly on the diamond market, finds itself competing more and more with Russian and Canadian wholesalers.

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