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...while, the first to compare in complexity, daring and brave-new-world beauty to the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles that Frank Gehry set loose three years ago. If anyone doubts that Libeskind's ideas are a route to a powerful new model of space and form--and there are people who still think of his work as eccentric grandstanding--this is a building to change minds...
Krogner has given Esprit a major makeover--administered with a touch of ruthlessness. A former management consultant, he joined Esprit's European unit in 1995 and quickly replaced the management. He applied a similar take-no-prisoners approach to Esprit's business model, moving the company upscale in both quality and customer. Once primarily a shop for teens, Esprit focuses on people in their late 20s. The new format revived European sales, now 85% of the total...
...after Katrina, some people are crazy enough to be buying back into New Orleans. Whole swaths of the city may still be covered in caked mud and mold, but prices are up in areas like Uptown with its historic homes and Downtown with its contemporary lofts. KB Homes has model homes open in the suburbs...
...collective improvisation" that worked to create New Orleans jazz is not a model for the new city, Butler said. "What happens in music doesn't always translate positively and constructively to the rest of life," he said. The city should nurture the arts like other cities do - Chicago's jazz festival, Austin cable music channels, tax incentives for club owners - Butler said...
Some nonprofits have replaced the old model, in which a paid manager had volunteers stuffing envelopes, with a volunteer manager who has paid help to handle mail. "Volunteers today want to be involved in something meaningful," says David Eisner, CEO of CNCS. The nonprofits get it, he says, but he adds that many "are unwilling to give up their comfort zone...