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...nevertheless places her under a perpetual spotlight. Every aspect of her life is fair game for scrutiny, from fashion faux pas to comments about female scientists to the car she drives. How a person chooses to travel can say a lot about her, but Harvard provides a default mode of transportation. Along with an official residence, the University offers its commander in chief a black Lincoln town car, which once sported a license plate reading “1636.” “The Corporation provided in hiring me as president that the university car would drive...
After this weekend’s McLaughlin Invitational in Farmingdale, N.Y., the Harvard men’s golf team is back in rebuilding mode after finishing in last place in the 18-team field. After Saturday morning’s closing round, the Crimson’s combined three-round score of 902 put the team four shots behind 17th-place St. Thomas Aquinas and 72 shots behind the winner, University of West Florida, which shot a team score of 10-under. Harvard occupied the rear of the field from the very beginning of the tournament by shooting an opening...
...audience needed a rooting interest, and because Clint was so damn cool, he established the new mode: hero by default. The good guy was the one with the fastest gun, the meanest scowl and top billing. And that perpetual three-day beard that Toshiro Mifune had worn in the same role in Yojimbo; in Hollywood Westerns, the hero's visage was typically hairless, while villains sported a dastardly mustache. Eastwood's scruff became a fashion statement that lives today on the carefully unshaven faces of pop stars and young actors. And his surliness, transposed to the Dirty Harry Callahan character...
...example, Prada and Gucci are not on her books anymore, it was Wong who provided the springboard for both into mainland China, and she continues an association as their landlord through the Walton Brown Group's shopping malls, the most prestigious of which are specialty designer stores called Maison Mode...
...brand's distributor for Hong Kong before moving to New York City to run Ferragamo's U.S. flagship stores. But sensing the potential of China, Wong moved back to Hong Kong in 1992 and became the founding shareholder in ImagineX. By 1994 she had opened the first Maison Mode store in Shanghai. "Right up until 2000, ImagineX did not make money," Wong admits. "One must look at China long term." Her sights are now set beyond the big cities of Shanghai, Beijing and Hangzhou. "Chongqing is one of the most populated cities in the world, with nearly 32 million people...