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Like a fox crossing a busy street, haute couture survives when by any measure it shouldn't. It's excessive in a time of frugality. It's celebratory when war looms. How can CEOs defend hand embroidery and expensive models to shareholders? Quite easily, it seems. Days before its January show featuring models swamped in giant brocade kimonos, Christian Dior announced sales were up 50%. Not of kimonos but of shoes and bags and sunglasses, bought by those wowed by the couture. And then there's Chanel, where the more wearable couture created by Karl Lagerfeld reportedly turns a profit...
...aftermath of this disaster, it was sad to see officials struggling to defend the existence of the space program. On television, one person pointed to the multitude of scientific and technical advances that have been byproducts of NASA research. And Columbia’s mission indeed focused exclusively on science—but measuring dust clouds and soot formation in space hardly captures America’s imagination, as worthy as those experiments...
With the win the Harvard women’s hockey team earns the right to defend the Beanpot title as “Best in Boston” for the fifth straight year. Harvard will play Boston College, whom the Crimson beat 17-2 last Tuesday, next Tuesday...
Gallegos said that Harvard’s communications to shareholders, which the complaint called “knowingly and materially false and misleading,” forced Templeton to defend its conduct...
...think we’re making eight, nine, 10 passes and when you do that, it’s harder to defend a player like Hana,” Delaney-Smith said. “It’s easy to get the scouting report, see our offenses and double and triple team her, but she’s making great decisions with the ball. She’s getting better, easier offense out there...