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...briefly at NYU's film school and reconnected years later at an alumni event. We were married six months after that, in 1993. We had sort of a whirlwind romance and planned our wedding quickly in a strange town where we knew no one. Several years later, when we were looking to get out of the work-for-hire world, a friend of ours brought up weddings. Lightning bolts went off in the room, and everyone thought, This is brilliant. Young people, the first to adopt the Internet, have a lot of money to spend in a short period...
...team is not looked very kindly upon. And we didn't know if it was something that would help us or hurt us. We also had two other business partners, so we wanted to be seen as equals. But it was funny - AOL gave us the money and never knew. People would ask, "Are you married?" and we would say yes but implying that it was to somebody who wasn't in the room. In the end, we considered it a competitive advantage because we were working from the moment we were brushing our teeth in the morning...
...some of the brands Li & Fung is snapping up are the very ones it helped doom: American labels that were slow to export manufacturing overseas. Last year it acquired the license to sell Royal Velvet, a home-textiles brand that went bust in '03. "We wanted a company that knew how to source overseas," says Rick Platt, managing director of Official Pillowtex LLC, which bought the bankrupt firm...
...lightening the burden of the expensive tuition at elite universities in hopes that those students will later return —or at least contribute—to their native country. “It wasn’t necessarily an incentive in and of itself, because I already knew I was planning on participating in the development of Côte d’Ivoire,” says Fofana. “Still, the scholarship reminds you of your gratitude for Côte d’Ivoire in a concrete form.”In the future...
...that forced me over the brink: “Christian—ask me about it!” I did ask him about it, taking his exclamation point as a sign of enthusiasm. Happily, Caleb was open to my request and my background, so the next thing I knew, I was at my first Bible study.I announced my Judaism from the start; I was Alex the Jew. To my surprise, no one recoiled or flung holy water on my unbaptized flesh. I was warmly welcomed. We started by reading the commandment against worshipping false idols from the Old Testament...