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When times are tough and consumers are "trading down" to buy more inexpensive goods, you'd think that a discount retailer like Target would flourish. After all, it's the place you go for quality clothes at affordable prices - cheap-chic designer Isaac Mizrahi offers a line - low-cost home accessories and perhaps a grocery item...
...Target reach Walmart's level of excellence? It may have to rethink its mission. Issac Mizrahi is nice. But now shoppers want to see meat and potatoes...
...Never buy anything that's on sale. That's always junk. You're just buying it because it's cheap.' ?Isaac Mizrahi, on surviving the recession...
Most of Israel's older gang families are second-generation Mizrahi Jews whose parents were refugees from the Middle East and North Africa. Ya'acov was one of 11 brothers, the son of a milkman who fled Egypt. A second wave of gangsters appeared in the 1990s: Russian Jewish criminals who control the prostitution rackets, often smuggling Eastern European women into Israel across the Sinai desert, using Bedouin guides. "The Russians are smart - and very violent," says Amir. In a model of entrepreneurial cooperation, some Jewish and Arab gangs hook up to smuggle drugs, stolen cars and arms between...
...Penn’s Spring Fling—their massive extravaganza boasted both Third Eye Blind and Ben Folds. “I think it was sort of a throwback to everyone’s junior high school and high school days,” says Matt B. Mizrahi, the co-director of the Penn Concert Planning Committee. But if you’re just one of the 7,000 expected to show up at this year’s Yardfest, don’t be too upset: as Goldenberg says, “No one else gets to have...