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...the George W. Bush campaign headquarters in Austin, Texas, in 1999, policy director Josh Bolten was a low-key Washingtonian in a building full of brash Texans. He assembled a best-and-brightest team with résumés bristling with brand names like his own--Princeton, Stanford, Goldman Sachs. "He used to brag that he had all these Supreme Court clerks from Harvard working for him," recalled a campaign veteran. Bolten was happy to let others preen in meetings while he waited to make a killer point at the end. He has thrived by showing, very quietly, that...
...staff, will move across the hall from his high-ceilinged office in the West Wing and turn it over to the new deputy chief of staff in charge of day-to-day policy, Harvard-trained wunderkind Joel Kaplan, 36, one of the former Supreme Court clerks from the Austin policy shop. Kaplan, a former Marine artillery officer who shares Bolten's boyish sense of humor, has been his deputy for the past five years. The Massachusetts native married a Texan earlier this month, with Bolten reading in English seven blessings derived from a traditional Jewish marriage ceremony...
Other Whole Foods innovations are also forging new ground. The Austin store offers guided tours via iPod and is about to open a catering division and a world-class cooking school. And a 75,000-sq.-ft. store in the center of London will be that city's largest supermarket ever...
Another thing about the Austin flagship: it is a she, like a yacht or a sports car, not a he. "See how this is softer, more rounded, more curved, more welcoming?" asks Robb, pointing to the lines of casings and walls. "A store design is about creating an intimacy or a connection. This is a more feminine design. The colors are warmer, shapes softer. The world was overly masculine in the 20th century, and it needs to be more balanced in the 21st...
...succeed in accomplishing all of this, the likelihood that you’ll attain your sex-symbol status is akin to a senior hooking up with a seventeen year-old pre-frosh next weekend: very high. Just like your role model, Austin Powers, women will want to sleep with you and men will want to be you. Or vice versa...