Word: mellone
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...appeared on his list, and Morales decided to apply.“I was like holy crap, Harvard can be on my college list,” says Morales, who was eventually accepted to Harvard, MIT, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Miami, Washington University in St. Louis, Carnegie Mellon, Worchester Polytechnic Institute, and Olin College of Engineering. Morales was faced with a decision he had not initially anticipated, choosing between some of the best engineering programs in the country. Generous financial aid packages came back from nearly every school on his list, including Harvard. Ultimately, Morales chose Olin over...
Joining her call for intervention is Sheldon Cohen, a psychology professor at Carnegie Mellon University and author of a commentary, which also appears in the current issue of JAMA and examines the effects of psychological stress on a variety of major diseases. Cohen's review of past studies finds that stress - particularly "social stressors" like divorce and the death of a loved one - often triggers clinical depression or worsens it, and causes relapses in people who have recovered. The report also suggests that stress may quicken the progress of the disease in AIDS patients, and, like the Canadian study, finds...
...insistence that what Halston needs is a "designer who won't ignore the dna" isn't new. That formula has been tried, with lackluster results, three times in recent years. The fourth hire is Marco Zanini, most recently at Versace working alongside Donatella Versace, who will now work with Mellon and the Hollywood stylist Rachel Zoe, also a part of Halston's creative advisory team...
...Though Mellon does not give the impression of being a particularly original thinker, she is, say those who have faced her in business negotiations, possessed of a dogged determination. Divorced from Matthew Mellon of the American banking dynasty, with whom she has a daughter, she attributes her success to a combination of ambition and instinct. "My intuition is always spot-on," she insists, "but my brain doesn't always follow it, so I try to stop myself intellectualizing too much...
...skull? But luxury is also about layering comfort into our turbocharged daily lives. As Coco Chanel once said, "Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it's not luxury." Nobody knows this better than the handful of dynamic women who drive the global luxury-goods business?from Jimmy Choo president Tamara Mellon, who built a $379 million business on the hunch that lots of other women would want what she wanted, to YSL CEO Valerie Hermann, who is relying on her own feminine instincts to reinvigorate the famous French brand...