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...clothing boutique, whose same-store sales plunged 14% in the third quarter. "In their case it might be an overexpansion problem as they got into men's and children's clothing and then made the acquisition of J.Jill, which wasn't smart," says Neil Stern, senior partner at McMillan Doolittle, a Chicago-based retail-consulting firm. That half-billion-dollar acquisition is currently up for sale, but no one is biting. Meanwhile, outdoor-apparel shop Eddie Bauer emerged from bankruptcy in June 2005 with a $450 million bank loan, which left it highly leveraged and low on cash. "While their...
...holding its annual conference, hopefully entitled "Destination: Success." Lionel Richie performed and recently unretired bicyclist Lance Armstrong gave a motivational talk. Despite the optimistic theme and the headline guests, attendance was down 20% from a year ago to 20,000 real estate agents. In all, NAR president Charles McMillan says the number of working real estate agents has dropped about 10% nationwide to 1.24 million, from a peek of 1.37 million two years...
...president Charles McMillan says his organization has "shared the proposal with members of Congress in recent days" but doesn't know whether enough lawmakers would support it. "We don't have a read on that yet," he says. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...page story, which it quickly became. With help from a family priest and a local right-to-life group, a press conference was arranged that brought instant national attention to Jesse's plight. ''We had an outrageous violation of civil rights here,'' charged Right-to-Life Spokeswoman Susan Carpenter McMillan. The resulting outcry led Loma Linda to make a deal: if Jesse's parents surrendered custody to his grandparents, he would become eligible for surgery. Though Jesse ultimately got a heart, the hospital's initial rejection sparked a heated debate on how to evaluate transplant candidates. The dearth of donor...
...American poet Frank O'Hara once wrote that "the light in Japan respects poets." It's easy to see his point with the Hyakunin Isshu. Moonlight, dawn light and fog-filtered daylight suffuse this anthology, illuminating scenes of delicate natural beauty. As McMillan notes in his introduction, the great Tokugawa-era painters Hon'ami Koetsu and Ogata Korin were but a few of the visual artists drawn to the poems. The latter illustrated one of the earliest and most famous karuta sets, as the major ukiyo-e (Floating World) artists - famed for their depictions of metropolitan life in Edo Japan...