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...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 in 2007. "We're going to give it a couple of years and then make a decision," says Drexler. "If it's successful, it's a whole...
...just ridden out a hurricane in a trailer park. Instruments, hair and clothing were strewn everywhere. The set list, culled from their debut, Funeral, was full of songs about death played on accordion and mandolin. Later U2's the Edge would create endless spaces between guitar chords, while Bono drove metaphorical trucks through them, but somehow Arcade Fire's patchwork symphonies roared almost as loudly. To hear the bands together was an education in the various ways rock music can be huge...
...hours before dawn on Feb. 26, East Timor's most wanted man, rebel leader Major Alfredo Reinado, drove into the small town of Same, 50 km south of Dili, with about 70 armed supporters. Many residents of the town sympathized with Reinado, who has been a focus of anti-government feeling since he led a mass desertion from the Army last April. When he and his men took over a house on a hill overlooking the town, groups of young men wrote VIVA ALFREDO on walls, held a sit-in at the crossroads about 100 m below the house...
...precious few basketball highlights on ESPN Deportes (all of them are of Manu Ginobili). I trekked through a horrendous blizzard in March 2005 to watch Harvard and Reka Cserny ’05 rally to beat Dartmouth and claim a share of the Ivy Title. One week later, we drove through sleet and rain to see the Crimson fall to the same Big Green team in a playoff in Providence. Last year, I covered a team plagued by youth, inexperience and injuries—a squad that fell out of the Ivy title picture before the second round of Ivies...
...just 4.5%, and job vacancy rates reported by Irish businesses in the past two years have actually risen, from 11% to 17%. The positions migrants are filling, economists say, are either ones that locals don't want, or new positions altogether. In fact, the infusion of educated labor drove growth in host countries' most dynamic sectors. Chudzicka arrived with a diploma in economics and now stars in her own Polish-language TV show (see profile). The majority of expatriate Poles have at least a secondary education, and many have a university degree. Most are working at jobs - in hotels...