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Unless you're an elf, the winter season is not only the time for giving to others. Shoppers are also buying for themselves at places like Oona's, a used clothing store on Mass...
...often while being forced to endure humiliation, cruel treatment, and harassment. Women constitute the larger number of these cases, especially women who are moving up in the ranks and threatening the career aspirations of their straight male counterparts. These Americans face ruined careers, shattered lives, and terrible blows to elf-esteem. Can we sit idly by and have polite academic discussions and ignore these irrefutable facts? Can we sit by and see this systematic injustice characterized as just another case of whining minorities appealing to political correctness, usually by straight white men who have never come close to experiencing oppression...
...FIRST BLUSH, IT SEEMS AN ODD MARRIAGE: YVES Saint Laurent, the high priest of Parisian chic, selling his financially burdened empire to France's pharmaceuticals and beauty-products company Elf Sanofi, itself a division of the state-owned petrochemical giant Elf Aquitaine. Look again. Elf Sanofi already owns such perfume brands as Oscar de la Renta, Van Cleef & Arpels and a share in Nina Ricci. The addition of YSL will create the world's third largest beauty-products group -- behind France's L'Oreal and Estee Lauder...
...scent of recession permeating high fashion had left YSL with rising debt and shriveling profits. The new group, with estimated annual sales of $4.6 billion, will emerge from a complex $645 million share swap. The deal gives Elf Sanofi total control of YSL's lucrative perfume and cosmetics line, but will allow Saint Laurent and YSL chairman Pierre Berge to retain management control of their celebrated fashion activities until 2001 -- enough time to leave a lasting impression...
CAPTION:THE ELF AQUITAINE GROUP