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...story -- a case history studied by students at the Harvard Business School. The original idea was disarmingly simple: package cosmetics made from natural ingredients in small containers (in the early days Roddick used the cheapest ones around, plastic urine-sample jars). But from the start she showed an uncanny flair for marketing. She had an eye for the right location -- well-traveled streets catering to mildly bohemian crowds. She hung sweet- smelling potpourri in her shops to attract trade and laid trails of perfume on the sidewalks leading to her door. And she moved quickly into franchising -- carefully vetting would...
...estimate of top-level male figure skaters in North America who have died of AIDS-related diseases. The plague also hobbled tennis immortal Arthur Ashe. And Magic, whose familiar flair in this year's N.B.A. All Star Game and at the Olympics proved there is life after HIV, put off an intended comeback after $ players said they felt at risk in close contact with an AIDS carrier. These stories confirm that sport, once a refuge from matters of life and death, is now a window into them...
Pannell and his staff offer a constant refrain. "What is the rule?" he asks. "No hitting, kicking, fighting or other types of negative, violent behavior," answer the students. Even among Malcolm X kindergartners, tempers can flair into serious combat with little or no provocation. In the community around Malcolm X, fighting often escalates in an instant. "There are no more fisticuffs," says Pannell. "It's maiming, stabbing, shooting immediately. This is the kind of learned behavior, the environment in which these children are growing up." At Malcolm X, the short-term objective is to intercede and present a peaceful resolution...
...aging "Actors" (Phil Munger and John Morton), also help develop the plot, though they follow the narrator's directions only insofar as it promotes their own washed-up acting careers. With booming voices and theatrical flair, Munger and Morton easily steal the show. Their incredibly comical scenes provide reason enough to see the production...
...whose wit and literary flair kept an audience of 400 in Sever 113 enraptured for over an hour, compared the Palestinian/Israeli conflict to Shakespeare's "Hamlet...