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...Valentino chose Mafatlal, besides the fact that she makes a great model for the clothes, it was clear she had the drive and the business smarts, says Valentino CEO Michele Norsa. (She has since become CEO of Ferragamo.) What also helped cement the deal was Norsa's deep knowledge of India, not just from a business standpoint but also from the position of a real love of the country, which he had first visited on vacation in 1977. As soon as she found that out, Mafatlal knew her dream could work...
...laughed and said, 'this guy is crazy,'" remembers former Genius president Adriano Goldschmied, who was running the meeting that day. "Diesel was a brand we had created to get rid of leftover fabrics and closeout stuff. We even chose an anti-movie-star name that said cheap, a slow car that smells...
That wasn't the only compromise. ASMI had also recommended that pitches be limited to 1,000 a season and 3,000 pitches a year. But the sports organization chose not to follow through on those guidelines, at least for now. "There is no way we could enforce or mandate it," says Stephen Keener, president and chief executive of Little League Baseball and Softball. "We understand the reasons for the season-long cap and why they are suggesting the kids do it, but we don't have any way to control it. It's already such a dramatic change...
...style democratic war from the very outset because the enemy chose as its targets not masses of troops or military installations, as in traditional war, but U.S. civiliansordinary people going about their business on planes, in tower blocks, in government offices. And it was democratic because the perpetrators took advantage of the very freedoms inherent in democracy to lay their murderous plans...
...museum is a great showcase for an architect but also a challenge. To protect the art, most museums keep windows to a minimum, which eliminates one of the main tools for making surfaces come alive. So for the exterior of the Denver museum, Libeskind chose more than 9,000 panels of titanium, the same material that covers Gehry's celebrated Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. It's a metal with a soft, refulgent glow and a variety of personalities. Gehry's titanium has a slightly golden cast. Libeskind's shifts from gray to silver and even to a peachy ocher...