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Just as important to the creation of a thriving Lord & Taylor is Baker's ability to dive headfirst into the insular fashion world, solicit advice and have people root for his success. He isn't simply a hands-off leader with a big bank account. He's a likable businessman with an artsy streak?a trait not immediately apparent from his unaffected personality. (But visit his home, and you will find priceless Picassos, Chagalls and a James Turrell art-installation pool...
Like most things of consequence?summit meetings, megamergers, the creation of the latest I-technology?true power shopping takes place in hushed quarters behind closed doors and outside the purview of the average eye. And so on a recent Thursday at the Neiman Marcus store in downtown Dallas, what might have come across as a pristine but lightly traveled main floor was in fact a bustling $4 billion juggernaut in action, the unseen hum of luxury being served up like nowhere else...
...house of Saint Laurent has no time to waste. It has been hemorrhaging cash for almost a decade, eroding its fashion credibility for perhaps longer and awaiting, if not salvation, the kind of high-end genius that was there at the creation of the Paris couturier in 1961 and that endured for four decades...
...been effective in creating substantial change on campus. The Sustainability Principles signed by then-University President Lawrence H. Summers continue to guide planning strategy in Allston; the 2005 wind referendum resulted in the University-supported Green Crimson Renewable Energy Fund; last year’s vote prompted the creation of the energy task force planning FAS emissions reductions...
...Wall Street Journal calling for a boycott of what she labeled the "Genocide Olympics." The campaign may have had some effect on Chinese behavior. After using its vote on the Security Council to block U.N. intervention in Darfur for four years, Beijing reversed course in July, endorsing the creation of a force of 26,000 soldiers and police officers to uphold a peace agreement between the Sudanese government and rebel forces...