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...best value for your money," says H&M chairman Stefan Persson. H&M is synonymous with the concept of "fast fashion"--trendy clothes at prices so low that the clothes are all but disposable. While the styles may be impulse buys, the company has maintained a disciplined, conservative approach to expansion that has turned H&M into Europe's second largest retailer in little more than a decade. Today H&M has 1,400 stores in 28 countries, including 114 in the U.S.; there it is still a small player, but its $687 million in sales last year has retailers...
...Students call their teachers by their first name. Because the school runs on a trimester system, kids can rack up credits more quickly than they could at an ordinary high school--part of the plan to keep them moving briskly toward graduation day. The teachers favor a hands-on approach; there's very little chalk and talk. Perez says he used to hate U.S. history. "In my old school, they'd just give you a page number and tell you to answer questions in the text." At South Brooklyn, he says, "we'll study a court case for a week...
...more inclusive roots of the party of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. It's important that our party grow," he says, noting that he won more of Florida's black vote (almost 20%) than any other Republican gubernatorial candidate in recent history. So far the Crist approach is working: his approval rating is at 73%. That's one more reason the presidential candidates from both parties will soon be showing up at Crist's door, where they will find a new power broker both parties can talk...
...artistic world. After graduating, he hopes to create a non-profit organization that will provide legal services to theater performers and other struggling artists. It’s that idea of combining seemingly disparate fields—science and music, law and performance—that has marked his approach to arts.“This is another one of my grand visions of the world,” he says. “I have a lot of faith in the power of art. I love theater people and artists. I want to help them on an ideological level...
...that his objections to Bush's world view are not merely semantic. Indeed, the Edwards foreign policy will be built around a rejection of the Bush doctrine, which puts a primary emphasis on the projection of American military power. "Americans are completely prepared for, and receptive to, an alternative approach," Edwards said. "I don't think they would accept an approach that did not include a component of strength. Our capacity to lead requires that we be strong - and that we have the moral authority...