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Once Mafatlal identified Valentino as her quarry, she had some persuading to do. "I didn't know him. Then, early in 2004, I was having lunch at the jet-set London restaurant San Lorenzo, and Mr. Valentino and his entourage walked in. So I sent over a note, and Carlos [Souza, the company's indefatigable majordomo] came over, and we talked...
...other, you must be successful," says Rosso, leaning across an outdoor table laid out with a country lunch. He has driven up the steep gravel road to the Diesel Farm, an estate acquired as a sort of company retreat in the Veneto countryside, with Stefano, 27, the second of his six children, who is completing a customized M.B.A.-style training course to be able some day to take over the company's management. Rosso's oldest son Andrea, 28, is creative director at the group's surf and street-wear line 55DSL. Rosso is wearing his usual chief-executive attire...
...Over the lunch, just outside the low-slung stone lodge that is the main building of the Diesel Farm, an hour's drive from Venice, Rosso talked about what he would consider...
...speech, entitled “Almost a Free Lunch,” drew a standing-room only crowd to the bank, located in the heart of Washington...
...Even what your child eats for lunch matters more than the sex of his teacher. In fact, getting good calories into students has so consistently been shown to improve test scores that some schools in Virginia have been accused of cheating a la Barry Bonds - by juicing their students on test days. On those days, the free lunches that poor students received had unusually higher calorie counts. Among those students, English test scores rose by 14%, and 18% in History and Social Studies. Maybe they scored higher on the next round of child obesity tests as well...