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With its dark furniture, high-tech gadgets and model jet plane, Philip Green's London office feels a lot like the work area of an investment banker or hedge fund manager. On the wall behind his enormous desk, there's even a photograph of Wall Street antihero Gordon Gekko. But on this May morning, a daytime-TV segment flickering on his sleek, flat-screened television betrays his role as a master of an entirely different universe: women's fashion...
...Those close to Romney doubt he was ever as committedly pro-choice as those comments might have made him seem. More likely, this school of thought argues, Romney figured abortion restrictions were not apt to come to the Governor's desk in a state as liberal as Massachusetts. Says longtime friend Joel Peterson, founder of a Salt Lake City equity firm: "He knew that they would never come up for a vote, so he took it off the table. Does that sound politically expedient? Maybe...
...miles from home, I knew that I would be stepping my bare feet onto a heated green marble tile floor in the bathroom. Never having visited this small boutique hotel, I also knew the soap and bath products were Molton Brown, the names and expertise limits of each front desk staff, and that I should make the counter-intuitive move to pass on the scones at breakfast and head straight for the croissants...
...Within days of taking office, Yeltsin began shaking the complacency of the city's entrenched party élite. He spurned the usual perquisites of public office - the country dacha, the ZIL limousine, the special shops and the insularity of working behind a telephone-covered desk. He and his wife, Naina, lived in an apartment near the center of town, from which he drove to work or, frequently, took a bus or the subway - to the shock and delight of citizens accustomed to seeing nothing of party big shots but the gray curtains of their speeding ZILs. His popularity increased when...
...quick glimpse at Donato’s presidential office? “Maybe a mahogany desk,” the player mused, “a leather executive chair, a plant, some shrubbery. I guess he’d probably have to put a computer in there for looks...