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Talbots The specialty clothing retailer, which targets women over 35, has run out of steam over the past year. Talbots' same-store sales were down 13.9% in the third quarter of 2008, and the chain lost $14.8 million during that time. "They look dead in the water," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a retail-consulting and investment-banking firm...
...DAVID I. FULTON-HOWARD...
...think they’re taking a big risk,” she said. “It will be fun for me, but I am not a politician. They were looking for something different, and they’re going to get it!” Howard Zucker, who has held positions at the World Health Organization and the Department of Health and Human Services, expressed excitement for his upcoming fellowship. He said he will draw on his globe-trotting experience with the WHO in his study group, which will focus on improving U.S. foreign policy using health diplomacy...
...Gist: Bernie Madoff and Co. have, for the moment, dislodged attorneys from the doghouse of public opinion. But a world without tort claims and padded billing would still be many people's idea of heaven. Howard, an attorney and author of the best-selling book The Death of Common Sense, chronicles a society in which rules have run amok and litigation looms as a constant threat. Among his egregious examples: a Florida teacher wary of restraining a hysterical child gets the cops to slap handcuffs on the kid instead; a New York City high school prohibits nurses from calling ambulances...
...Lowdown: Howard's book is a withering critique not of lawyers, but of us: a nation paralyzed by fear, unwilling to assume responsibility, both overly reliant on authority and distrustful of it. Law is wielded as a weapon of intimidation rather than as an instrument of protection - a problem George Will found significant enough to label Life Without Lawyers as "2009's most needed book on public affairs." That doesn't make it a beach read, though. At some point - after the author has quoted Emerson on self-reliance, Mill on utility and Jared Diamond on the rise and fall...