Word: martha
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...Mattel, Mary Kate and Ashley are actually human. They are well aware of top-notch marketing—not just of themselves, but of other people as brands. They admitted in a Vanity Fair profile, for example, that one of the people they admire the most is Martha Stewart, “because of, like, everything she has created with her brand.” And VF writer James Wolcott couldn’t help but be impressed by the twins and their aura, concluding that, “Unlike the Bush daughters or the Hilton sisters, who always look...
...BLOCKING INVESTIGATIONS A federal jury could not reach a verdict last month against former Credit Suisse First Boston investment banker Frank Quattrone, accused of ordering the destruction of e-mail about illegally allocated shares of IPOs. But prosecutors plan to pursue a second trial. Homemaker extraordinaire Martha Stewart, whose trial begins on Jan. 12, faces accusations of securities fraud and that she obstructed justice when asked about her ImClone trades. She and Quattrone deny the charges...
Back in 2000, when it signed the deal, the publisher bought the public Rosie: the cuddly, funny, blue-collar Long Island girl who mother-henned the world, gave lavishly to charity, acted like a star-struck kid meeting her idols--and like Oprah Winfrey and Martha Stewart, had a daily TV show to promote herself and her magazine activities. What they got, two years later, was a new Rosie: a heftier, more assertive, left-wing, out-of-the-closet lesbian--with no show...
...stand, O'Donnell said Brewster had asked her, "Are you going to be a controlling bitch like Martha and Oprah?" and she replied, "Martha and Oprah are pretty successful controlling bitches, don't you think?" But Oprah gave women a vision of how to be better; Stewart gave them advice on how to get it done prettier and more tastily. The new Rosie--out, stout and lout--was chancier as an icon for mainstream moms...
Half a dozen HLS students, under the direction of Bloomberg Professor of Law Martha L. Minow, are researching “the relative merits of different types of suits,” Goad said...