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...Wong was born during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore and had to leave school to work. "I will never forget that I was hungry for many years," says Wong, who these days maintains homes in Hong Kong and Singapore and on Australia's Gold Coast. A stint behind the counter at Elizabeth Arden led to 25 years in the beauty business, culminating in a job working for Estée Lauder as regional sales and marketing director for Asia. A haphazard search for wide shoes led Wong to Ferragamo and eventually into fashion. Soon she was the brand's distributor...
...Beauty Counter In Russia the most popular beauty purchase is fragrance for women and cologne for men. Most consumers who buy fragrance are responding to the reputation of the brand, the quality of the product or the price. Only 3% of affluent Russians said they buy perfume because a celebrity endorsed the brand...
Harvard’s scores appeared to counter some critics of the University who have charged that students here are not sufficiently exposed to the basics of American history. Shortly after University President Lawrence H. Summers resigned in February 2006, columnist John Tierney wrote in The New York Times: “You might expect the Harvard history department to devote a course or two to the American Revolution or the Constitution, but those topics are too mundane...
...that our rivalry with Yale is more a once-a-year event than a way of life, and that upperclassmen find overt displays of excitement confusing, not contagious. But what does it mean that the people who know Harvard the least seem to love it the best? One can counter by arguing that the senior’s love for Harvard is more restrained and more refined, better allowing him or her to appreciate Harvard on its own terms. Harvard love isn’t the cheering, yelling kind of love: it’s more subtle than that, because...
...most carefully engineered measure designed by Democrats to limit the scope of the war. It directs the Secretary of Defense to reduce the number of U.S. combat troops in Iraq and alter the remaining forces' mission to three smaller roles: force protection, training of Iraqi forces and counter-terrorism operations against al-Qaeda...