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...furniture might be taken into consideration. The team regularly gets feedback on how well it's doing: Muji holds company-wide exhibits, from which about 80% of new items are chosen. A five-member advisory board--which fine-tunes and vets Muji products from start to finish--has the final...
...than leaving it undeveloped—as it continues to draft plans. “Seeing these empty buildings continuing to sit empty will only cause more dissatisfaction,” he said. He also criticized Harvard for not being clear about whether it is going to submit its final master plan to the city in a few months. Graduate School of Design professor Alex Krieger, who has been involved in Allston planning in the past, said it was natural that the expansion project bear some of the brunt of the current financial stress on Harvard...
Alexander Solzhenitsyn was so elderly and melancholy that in 2008 he died. In the final years of his life, back in the homeland he had fought so hard to free from the oppression of the KGB, he came to a disappointing rapprochement with the new ruler of Russia, a former KGB agent. Having for years been tarred with the accusation of anti-Semitism, he devoted his final energies to a two-volume book about the Jews which would, among other things, demonstrate that he was not anti-Semitic. It mostly did the opposite. When, in the wake of his death...
...TIME interview on the eve of the Nov. 4 election, Jackson, who had served as a national co-chair of Obama's presidential campaign, said he was not lobbying for Obama's seat. "My focus during these final hours has been on electing Obama President. If he wins," Jackson added, "I'd be honored and humbled to succeed him in the U.S. Senate." Then, he said, "I'm confident the governor will make a decision in the best interest of the state and country." But shortly after Obama's election, Jackson mounted a vigorous public campaign for the seat...
...years and was a sharp reversal of the double-digit growth rates manufacturers have typically posted in recent years. The drop was "a shock figure," says Ben Simpfendorfer, the Hong Kong-based chief China economist for the Royal Bank of Scotland. "I had expected exports to collapse in the final few months but not to this extent. There really isn't a precedent. It underscores the magnitude of the global slowdown and fact that it's spilling into China...