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...that seduces him or her into buying. The store, he says, should be "a rational extension of the [fashion] designer." Gabellini spends inordinate amounts of time with the fashion folks, right down to the artisan, trying to understand the craft of each house. Then he puts on his bean-counter hat and assesses the ratio of clothing sales to accessories sales and factors in other businesslike components to incorporate into his designs. A designer label like Jil Sander, from which clients are more apt to buy head to toe, requires a different take from that of a shoe and accessory...
...possibility of terrorist retaliation. But others are less restrained. Last week British Prime Minister Tony Blair said an al-Qaeda attack in Britain is "inevitable." According to the New York Times, U.S. officials believe that Islamic militants arrested in London early this year for allegedly manufacturing ricin--a castor-bean-derived poison that Saddam may also possess--may have been plotting to tamper with food served to British troops at least at one nearby base...
Wolf says this with a kind of amazement: Don't these people realize TV is a business? It would be too simple, though, to paint him as a bean counter who does nothing for the love of it. Dragnet is a venture of both business and nostalgia; Wolf reminisces about being a cop-smitten tot, getting his parents to let him stay up until 9 p.m. to watch the TV series' debut. But then he shifts gears. "From a business standpoint," he says, "it's hard to launch new names. Everybody knows what Dragnet is. It's a pre-emptive...
Happily, last Thursday my search came to an end. In a moment of thesis anxiety (after two stressful weeks in the thesis “motivational build-up” stage), I discovered the Law School’s best-kept secret: the Giant Blue Bean-Bag Chairs. I was informed of these luxury furniture creations by some postgraduate friends who are always supportive of my academic career. (Imagine whining children: “Ah-haa, you have to pick courrrrses. And you still have hommmmework.” They say this as they sit down in front...
Alas, until I can talk the Public Library into a private office, the Giant Blue Bean-Bags will be my workplace, where I will remember another inspirational book quote (the one right before, “Writing is so difficult that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter”). “A perfect workplace is something to be treasured...