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That's why growing smartly--instead of quickly--consumes Drexler. Last year J. Crew added just 25 stores; this year 35 to 40. "We don't want to be bigger faster," Drexler told analysts. "We want to be better faster." Consider Madewell, a new store that could rival his creation of Old Navy for Gap. Clothes at Madewell are casual (hoodies, bubble tunics) and cost 20% to 30% less than J. Crew's. While Drexler drove Old Navy from zero to $1 billion in sales in four years, the plan at Madewell is slow growth: five new stores...
...served as governor of Ardabil province before being replaced by reformist President Mohammed Khatami, who took office in 1997. Ahmadinejad was appointed mayor of Tehran in 2003 after a municipal-council election in which just 6% of voters participated. His victory in the 2005 presidential election was an even bigger fluke. He ran a low-key campaign, focused on corruption and directing Iran's oil wealth to the poor. After sneaking into second place past six other contenders, he beat former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in the runoff...
...office last weekend. Director Zack Snyder's adaptation of the graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City) pulled in $70.9 million, the highest domestic gross for a movie released in March, and third best for an R-rated film. Since sword-and-sandal epics tend to do much bigger business abroad (Gladiator 59% of its theatrical take, Troy 73%), the upside for 300 is enormous...
...school dropout may already have the skills for a job, but his or her worldview and even capacity as an American citizen would be severely limited without studying staples like American history or basic physics. It is also very possible that a dropout would want to move on to bigger and better things as he or she ages. The same 16-year-old may someday want to turn a job in construction into a career in architecture, and yet lack the necessary background. By no means, however, should students feel like they are mired in a substandard high school...
...outsider cred” by sticking this line into your fashion review: “The first pink polo shirt I ever saw on a male…was six sizes too big on the back of a huge black dude with diamond earrings that were way bigger than the ones my grandparents gave me for my bat mitzvah.” Charitably, the author—Princeton’s Tessa Brown ’08—managed to identify one black man worthy of praise, seeing in “Kanye West and his ghetto fabulous take...