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...popularity is declining?as shoppers opt for selective, less-time-consuming specialty stores or fashion discounters?Baker has made it his mission to reinvigorate the 181-year-old chain by keeping it small: he will downsize the New York City flagship store and continue with a tightly edited merchandise mix tailored to East Coast suburban families at all the stores. Jane Elfers, Lord & Taylor's CEO for the past seven years, has been quietly restructuring the brand away from the store your grandmother loves into a showcase for top American design talent. And the business-savvy Baker just might have...
...people know about,” Breaux says. “He’s a converted quarterback, and he’s going to be a new face to step out this year. He’ll definitely be in the mix at receiver...
...He’s No. 2 right now, and he’s right in the mix,” Murphy says. “We’ll let Cheng Ho probably get the majority of the reps because he’s earned it, but Gino Gordon, we think he’s a quality player...
...that more than 2,000 Jews fought for Britain in World War I, only to be greeted on their return as aliens. Yet where others complain about history, Phillips sets about remaking it, in more inclusive terms. As befits his theme, this new book is a hybrid, a mix of history, fiction and first-person reportage, its opening section delivered in the 18th century voice of a friend of Johnson's, the closing one in a collection of voices (white, West Indian, African), recalling the quiet, solitary-seeming Oluwale as he walked around the streets of Leeds...
...goofy or ridiculous, its other members stop fearing that they will make fools out of themselves and start taking intellectual risks. Of course, the truth is that section dynamics, like any group dynamics, are complicated, and no single formula predictably yields lively discussion. But by the same token, no mix of people, however “naturally” incompatible, is doomed to make a terrible section. A single strong personality has the power to completely alter the chemistry. And if no such personality is already present, students have a responsibility to fill in and act the necessary roles until...