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Nike Plus faces some stiff challenges. Sure, Nike is gaining market share in running, but consumer tastes are shifting away from that type of shoe. According to market-research firm NPD Group, fashion-themed sneakers overtook running shoes as the top-selling category in the athletic-footwear market in July 2007 for the first time. "The athletic-footwear market will see some tough sledding for the next couple of quarters," says John Shanley, an analyst at Susquehanna Financial Group...
Boston College won the event in dominating fashion, earning just 180 total points, while Yale was the runner-up with 252 points...
...Culture Minister Adrian Iorgulescu accused the opposition of "amateurism, populism and demagoguery." The opposition insists that the heirs will be able to keep the castle provided that the agreement is executed in a proper fashion. "Romania does not want to to take back the castle, says Dumitru Puchianu from the center-right Democratic party. "If the royal house has a strong, solid argument they will get it back...
...that we should maybe consider doing something about it eventually. Or you could catch the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting in Manhattan, where billionaire executives, extremely smart people and star-struck journalists listened raptly as Brad Pitt detailed his plans to rebuild New Orleans in fabulously green fashion...
...election. If so, she will be the first woman ever elected to the Casa Rosada, the Pink House, the Buenos Aires presidential palace. (Isabel Peron, president from 1974 to 1976, succeeded to the office after her husband Juan died.) A veteran lawyer, legislator and stateswoman, as well as political fashion plate, Fernandez is often called The New Evita, after Argentina's most famous First Lady, Eva Peron. In a rare interview, she talked with TIME's Tim Padgett about her role in Argentina's return to the world stage after its disastrous financial crisis of 2001-02. Excerpts...