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...aisles are clean, the store is brightly lit and associates in red polo shirts provide friendly service to the customers, who flock there for the low prices and the wide range of products offered. Throughout the store the image of a kindly old man appears in posters and photographs. His slogans and philosophy have been internalized by all employees, and they can tell you the story of his great march forward from humble rural roots to become a great leader. And by the way, would you like us to skin that frog for you? Welcome to Wal-Mart in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The World's Biggest Store | 1/12/2003 | See Source »

Dramatic, hauntingly glamorous and sometimes surreal, Wilson’s selections feature Lynes’ trademark dark foregrounds with subjects lit from just behind the head. In one classic image, dancer Martha Graham stands with her arms placed above her head in an angst-ridden pose. Another, of Tennessee Williams, shows the playwright gazing off to the right in a black sweater with torn sleeves...

Author: By Julia E. Twarog, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pusey Displays Long-Lost Celebrity Photographs | 1/10/2003 | See Source »

Most communities pride themselves on well-lit streets and efficient public transportation, but Cantabrigians say Harvard has taken civic improvements...

Author: By Christopher M. Loomis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Queries Harvard Over Shuttle Noise | 1/8/2003 | See Source »

...golden touch mirrored that of the rest of the Crimson squad, which lit up the scoreboard during the first half...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Cserny Dominant at Wagner | 1/6/2003 | See Source »

...when he needs to, he can crank up the passion. When he felt negotiations with the 12 banks had dragged on too long, he decided to play tough. He instructed the top lawyers of five of the major banks to come to his office. When they arrived, he lit into them. (One CEO was also present, Morgan Stanley's Philip Purcell.) "Spitzer was harsh, irate, yelling at times," one of the lawyers told TIME. Spitzer said he was fed up with their haggling, that they should be ashamed of what they had done to investors, that they were acting "like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eliot Spitzer: Wall Street's Top Cop | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

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