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...Pastor and Garry VanPatter, the team behind the firm Humantific, furiously drew and took notes. "He was really deep in the trees," Pastor says. The pair made sense of Palestrant's fuzzy ideas and turned them into huge, glossy posters with icons representing how the parts of his business fit together. Diagrams in hand, Palestrant went to venture-capital funds and returned with $40 million in start-up money...
...want to put on a good show for them,” she says. An attendant, who has mistakenly pegged me as Alford’s dressing assistant, rushes both of us to the entrance of the runway, thrusting a bracelet into my hand. She instructs me to fit the loopy, gold accessory onto Alford’s wrist. We’re moments away from the first scene. I wish her luck, but it’s too late. She can’t hear me. Alford is too busy encouraging her fellow models before the opening sequence...
...swag.” The destination for this do-up? Eleganza 2008. “I obviously need to step my fashion game up,” she explains. “There’s a lot of beautiful people at Eleganza. Just trying to fit in. Also it’s springtime. Rock the colors.” Rock the colors? Check. Rock the party? Next step. A poster of The Roots, a somewhat underground R&B group, hangs on the wall while a larger poster of Bob Marley is framed by separate photos of various other rappers...
...combative to get in response has been a dilemma for Obama, who has built his entire candidacy on the idea that he represents a new, less corrosive brand of politics. Nor does the roughness of ordinary politics seem to fit Obama's personal style. But increasingly, Democrats have been worried about how well that style will wear if Obama gets the nomination and has to face even tougher attacks at the hands of Republicans. "Sometimes, he sounds like he is writing a Ph.D.," said one adviser. "He has to show some passion...
...sense of teamwork, responsibility and commitment. Of course, college students couldn't create such a sophisticated machine from scratch. Much of the work has focused on fine-tuning components purchased elsewhere, such as the chassis, which is manufactured by Courage-Oreca of France but has been highly modified to fit the students' specifications. The car is powered by a four-liter V8 turbocharged engine - meant to be compact, and costing half as much as a conventional racing engine - created for the university by Japanese venture company YGK, to which Hayashi is a consultant...