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...interim CEO Robert Fisher, own about 33% of Gap shares and have never seemed interested in selling their baby; they want it fixed. One possibility: breaking up the company into three more-nimble parts, with each brand focused on a specific customer demographic. "The combination is overly complex and unmanageable," says Todd Slater, managing director at Lazard Capital Markets. Whether or not it remains one intact company, industry experts say Gap will have to get back to the fashion basics at its flagship or risk losing even its undisputed title as the king of khaki...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Khakis Get the Blues | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...students that a two-dimensional figure can have only one side. Indeed, the simplest chords, which consist of just two notes, live on an actual Möbius strip. Three-note chords reside in spaces that look like prisms--except that opposing faces connect to each other. And more complex chords inhabit spaces that are as hard to visualize as the multidimensional universes of string theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Geometry of Music | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...Roselli acknowledges in his papers, sexuality in humans is far more complex than in sheep. The whole notion that researchers studying farm animals could develop a "cure" for human homosexuality is a fantasy of the far left and the far right, which both value a gay-sheep "scandal" more than the messy reality that is Roselli's work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yep, They're Gay | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...could have a good argument about whether adorable little sheep should be killed for sex research. As a gay man, I tend to believe the more we know about the complex interplay of biology and environment that shapes sexuality, the less time we will spend nourishing Old Testament anachronisms about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yep, They're Gay | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

From Day One it has been apparent that President Reagan's decisions, if not his thinking, are based almost totally on his simplistic view of the world rather than on the complex realities that exist. The media have winked at this fundamental flaw, and most Americans have gone along, because they too prefer the simple illusions to the harsh facts. If the press had only held our President's feet to the fires of reality and truth, events would never have descended to their present deplorable level and both the President and the nation would have been spared this ultimate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 15, 1986 | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

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