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...system, though, isn't flawless and neither is Drexler. In the fall of 2005, J. Crew stocked heavy sweaters and classic styles, then watched the temperature rise and shoppers recede. Yet that misstep paled next to the one that ended his reign at Gap in the late 1990s, when Drexler overreacted to fast-fashion chains like H&M and took Gap trendy, alienating its core khaki customer. That call, exacerbated by an overaggressive store expansion, led to his forced resignation...
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...Harvard softball team competed in its second tournament of the season, playing five games and winning two in the Eller Media Stadium Classic in Las Vegas, Nev., this weekend.“We are going home confident with what we’ve done,” Crimson coach Jenny Allard said, “but hungry for improvement.”LONGWOOD 3, HARVARD 1Yesterday, Harvard (4-5) struggled to keep up with Longwood (10-5), which tallied a run in the first inning after a line-drive double that came around to score.Two unearned runs in the third?...
...movie tells a history-textbook classic: the battle of Thermopylae. Nearly all representations of this story, from Roman theater to celluloid, are based on the writings of Herodotus, allegedly the “father of history.” Back in August 480 BC, his “Histories” tell us that King Xerxes of Persia filled the Hellenic peninsula with his barbaric hordes, ready to conquer and command Greece. Vastly outnumbered and representing the alliance of Greek city-states, 300 Spartans—the movie’s namesake—held their ground for three days...
...near mining operations,” according to a Harvard Law School report released this week. The situation in Guyana reflects a broader global concern, said Bonnie L. Docherty, a clinical instructor at the Law School who helped produce the report. “It’s a classic example of the linkage between environmental damage and human rights abuses,” she said, citing the indigenous Guyanese population’s dependence on local rivers for food, water, and other needs. Docherty helped organize two 2005 missions to Guyana by the International Human Rights Clinic, the branch...