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...this a newly minted version of the classic Macy's vs. Gimbel's rivalry? "It's absolutely a battle," says Steven Keith Platt of the Platt Retail Institute, an industry think tank in Hindale, Ill. "They're both going after the same market--the female. She controls the purse strings." Both chains dismiss the notion of a retail slugfest. But it is clear that each chain is borrowing a page from the other's business model. For example, 22 of the 25 stores that Penney opened in the third quarter were situated in very Kohl's-like locales, a different...
...This continues to be an extremely complex investigation, and detectives are pursuing many lines of inquiry," said a police spokeswoman. Litvinenko's excruciating and sinister death and the swirl of international politics around it make this a case worthy of John le Carré, but as the police insist, the classic questions of any murder inquiry still apply: Scotland Yard, in short, is looking for motive, means and opportunity...
...time she turns 13 in February, Dakota Fanning will have appeared in 16 movies. Her two latest--an adaptation of the children's classic Charlotte's Web, in theaters this month, and the gritty indie Hound Dog, which will screen at the Sundance Film Festival in January--represent opposite ends of the young star's growing oeuvre. Fanning told TIME's Rebecca Winters Keegan about enduring her awkward stage, tackling grownup themes and selling Girl Scout cookies...
Historically, Starbucks has done a great job at balancing new ideas with efficiency, says Frances Frei, a professor at Harvard business school who has studied the company. A classic example: the way it trains us to order in Starbucks jargon, grande this and half-caff that. Serving tens of thousands of possible drink combinations would be an operational nightmare were it not for a regimented logic to ordering, a marketing flourish that helps establish the atmosphere of an Italian café. "The fight in any company is [that] marketing wants more things for the customer and operations wants less," says Frei...
...Literature Leo Damrosch, was a creative thesis titled “’If Answerable Style I Can Obtain...’: An Analysis and Account of Illustrating Paradise Lost” — a film noir-style graphic rethinking of John Milton’s classic poem, which won Chiang a summa cum laude reading and a Hoopes Prize. Damrosch remembers Chiang as one of his all-time favorite students because of his “no bullshit” attitude and self-confidence, he says. Not knowing how to apply his joint degree, Chiang applied...