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...vindication in the strategy. He demonstrated that in 2006 when he steered Publicis CEO Maurice Lévy to spend $1.3 billion to buy online advertising and marketing specialist Digitas before that market got scalding hot. "We made a full screening of what was happening in the interactive-marketing media field, how it was going to impact [Publicis'] business and why they needed to make an early major move into that field," says Messier. Since then, he points out, every large player has followed the trend: Google with DoubleClick, Yahoo! with Right Media, WPP with 24/7 Real Media, and Microsoft with...
There are just over 6,000 people in the superclass. So says the author of this fascinating book, a field guide to the world's most élite citizens. See the rich and powerful in their natural habitats, from Davos and Bilderberg to the Bohemian Grove. "That such a group exists is indisputable," says Rothkopf, who includes such power brokers as heads of state, CEOs of the world's largest companies, billionaire entrepreneurs and even a handful of terrorist leaders. Is there a master list? Yep, but the author is a tease. "The day after it was published, it would...
Then there are Joe Bradley's big bright canvases, such as Cavalry, 2007, which combine the resolutely abstract boxes and rectangles of Minimalist and color-field painting into cartoon-character formations. It's a bit of an art-history joke, and one that sculptor Joel Shapiro played with more than 20 years ago in 3-D. But Bradley's ferocious colors and color contrasts give his work a weirdly commanding presence, one made weirder still by all those infantile silhouettes...
...This respect translates to the field as well, where the coaches do not hesitate to challenge the athletes...
...place Cornell in the Ivy standings with a thrilling three-point victory in front of a raucous Lavietes Pavilion crowd. That night in Cambridge, the Big Red was without star forward and Ivy Player of the Year Jeomi Maduka, who was competing in the league championships in track and field. Cornell will have her back this time around, and Maduka gave the Crimson forwards fits en route to a double-double in the Big Red’s blowout win in Ithaca last month.Of course, Harvard won’t have the privilege of worrying about Sunday?...