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...communal approach has helped him build the Philippines' equivalent of Wal-Mart Stores. SM Group is a retail giant, with 38,600 employees and annual revenues of $1.7 billion. Despite that success, Sy's children realize that the all-in-the-family management style is becoming outdated. Like so many of Asia's big business clans, a generational shift and the stresses of running an increasingly complex company are forcing the insular Sys to open up more to outsiders. "For my father, the organization is the family," says Sy's eldest daughter Teresita Sy-Coson, known as Tessie...
...overflows with the castaway books of Rojo regulars, while the multi-colored Christmas lights and potted palms offer a festive, hodgepodge atmosphere. After selecting your beverage of choice, which will be provided in a bowl-sized pastel ceramic cup, you can choose between a private table or a more communal couch seating. The kids behind the counter pick the music—and they have good taste. The sounds run from punk in the morning to folk in the late afternoon, but baristas are usually receptive to requests. Sarah Hardin ’04 highly endorses the pastries...
...events, guests are seated in individual tables, yet the affair retains a communal quality as course after course is unveiled...
...festival, which runs through March 14. When he inherited it from Californian opera director Peter Sellars, the biennial event was not in good shape. Sellars had tried to explode the traditional multi-arts model by pouring more money into film and grassroots programs. But his quest for a communal love-in turned into war with the festival's board. Box office and sponsorship flagged, and Sellars walked before the festival began...
...Topsy-Turvy, for Yente the Matchmaker (played by Nancy Opel, who stepped in after Barbara Barrie--Harnick's sister-in-law--was dumped when the producers decided she wasn't right for the role). Most important, for a show set in prerevolutionary Russia, Leveaux has taken a revolutionary communal approach: instead of schmaltzy star turns, he forges a cohesive and resonant human drama...