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...easily spread elsewhere. For a while, Turks - like Chinese, Brazilians, Indians, Hungarians and others - thought their buoyant domestic growth could insulate them from a downturn in the U.S. and Western Europe. Now they're discovering that it can't. "A lot of us gave credence to 'decoupling,' " says Ümit Boyner, who together with her husband runs a big Turkish retail empire. "Looking ahead, we're wondering if we've even seen the worst...
...That's little consolation to Ümit Boyner. The Boyner family's retailing business includes many of the world's top brands, from high-end names such as Prada and Bottega Veneta to more affordable ones like Benetton. Along with their competitors, the Boyners have been on a roll. New shopping malls have sprung up across the country, especially in Istanbul, where some of the most recent examples were deliberately aimed at upscale, upwardly mobile clients. The Boyners have fully participated in this boom; for luxury goods alone, they doubled their retail space over the past two years...
...political problem. Some members of the audience, however, were surprised at Flyvbjerg’s approach. “It’s pretty rare to hear people criticize the consequences of engineers with big imaginations,” said Travis P. Dunn, a civil engineering student at MIT. “His perspective is unique...
...Four of the Crimson’s less experienced sailors posted the team’s best results on the weekend with a third-place finish in the MIT Invite on Saturday...
...selling locally made beads and going on service trips to Africa. The rally was sponsored by the Youth Alliance For Leadership and Development in Africa at Harvard and the Millennium Campus Network—an organization composed of students at Harvard, the Berklee College of Music, Brandeis, Boston University, MIT, and Tufts. Since MCN was founded last fall, the organization has hosted a conference attended by over 1,700 students, along with a summer service trip to Nicaragua. Roxanne N. Bischoff, a Brandeis sophomore, said she that her peers at the “Stand Up” rally left...