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...Leyla R. Bravo ’05, president of Fuerza Latina, says her group is “outraged” by Huntington’s article...
...film got. And I wrote about some of the attacks on Gibson and his "Passion" ("Holy Hypocrisies") on this web site. In the day since that was posted, I've received more than 150 e-mails, the vast majority of them with subject headings like "Thank you," "Well put," "Bravo," Kudos," "Amen, brother," "Loved the article!" and "wow." Most of the notes cheered me for pointing out what reader David Tuggy called "the deep intolerance of the professionally tolerant." And while any old leftie is naturally squeamish about being praised by cultural conservatives for attacking those usually...
...part of her intrepidity comes from growing up the daughter of a hairdresser who owned a salon in New York City's Bronx--Bravo attended the elite public Bronx High School of Science and Fordham University, also in the Bronx--the rest may result from the fact that early in her career, she saw "women in action." Says Bravo: "In cosmetics, which is where I particularly grew up, we had these wonderful role models. Estee Lauder, Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden are all women who created companies." Clinique's Phillips "hired all women," Bravo says. "Her top lieutenants were female...
Like Phillips, Bravo has an exceptional number of women, at least 12, filling vital positions at the company. "I'd love to make the gist of this that Burberry has so many women in positions of power. I think that's really more interesting than talking about one person," she says. But people are interested in Bravo, who in July topped the European executive-compensation list, having earned $9.2 million in 2002, surpassing Tom Ford and LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault (who remains France's richest man despite his $1.59 million take-home). So she agrees to set the record straight...
...about being kinder, to others and to ourselves. While style has entered every crevice of our lives and there is no stuffing it back in the closet, even Carson Kressley of Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is hardly Tom Ford when it comes to chic. But the show--which has been picked up by networks around the globe--works because Kressley's snappy banter is underscored with tolerance and generosity...