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...granted a group of investors the concession to provide water to the city of Lyon. It was such a hit on the Paris stock market that the company soon spun off its own bank, Société Générale. Competing bank Crédit Lyonnais parried in 1880 with the creation of Lyonnaise des Eaux, which is the core of Suez's water business today. Though the direct links to those banks no longer exist, both companies have been key players in the roiling waters of French business and government ever since...
That's why growing smartly--instead of quickly--consumes Drexler. Last year J. Crew added just 25 stores; this year 35 to 40. "We don't want to be bigger faster," Drexler told analysts. "We want to be better faster." Consider Madewell, a new store that could rival his creation of Old Navy for Gap. Clothes at Madewell are casual (hoodies, bubble tunics) and cost 20% to 30% less than J. Crew's. While Drexler drove Old Navy from zero to $1 billion in sales in four years, the plan at Madewell is slow growth: five new stores...
...complexities of a work of art. As in her depiction of Johannes Vermeer’s city of Delft in her 2000 breakaway bestseller “Girl with a Pearl Earring,†Chevalier here evocatively imagines a fictive London surrounding Blake’s creation of the “Songs of Innocence and of Experience.†The year is 1792 and the Kellaway family has just arrived in London from the village of Piddletrenthide in southwest England. Having recently buried a son, the Kellaway parents hope that the urban milieu will provide a respite...
...under the assumption that the narrator lied or from the perspective of a single character. “Every time you read you are reinterpreting as a reader,†Saldarriaga said. “Reading is already interpretation.†At Friday’s book-creation workshop, educators and program leaders from Harvard and local public schools aimed to import Barilaro and Saldarriaga’s techniques to use with their own projects. Said Natasha Labaze, an English teacher at Cambridge Ringe and Latin High School, “I’m having a wonderful...
...prelude or rehearsal to World War II,†Epps says.Furthermore, the war inspired countless works of art that are still valued today. The atrocity of the large scale bombing of the city of Guernica, which resulted in immense loss of life in 1937, led to the creation one of the best-known works of art of the 20th century. “[The bombing] is what sparked Picasso’s ‘Guernica,’ which is without question the most famous anti-war work of art,†says Epps...