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...woman to be listed on the Fortune 500 in 1985. Although Claiborne retired in 1989, today the company she founded has grown to include Ellen Tracy, Dana Buchman and Juicy Couture, generating sales of almost $5 billion last year. In 1987, Fortune magazine called her "the outstanding role model for fashion entrepreneurs...
...consumers are squeezed for dozens of add-on charges. For ring tones, video services, text messages, and just about any specialty service that comes along to provide a convenience, dollars are tacked on to your bill. Apple and AT&T are taking a step away from that fee-squeezing model by offering all-in packages that include data, video and text messaging. They start at $60 a month, though, and climb to $100 for 1,350 monthly minutes of calling. That means that if you get the $600 model and choose the top minutes package, you're going to shell...
...There are other reasons to steer clear. In its IPO filing, Blackstone was very blunt about how erratic profit can be. That may be the nature of the private equity business model - buying existing companies and then spending years fixing them up before reselling and realizing gains - but it also makes it next to impossible to model future earnings and thus come up with a fair stock price, says Brian Hamilton, CEO of Sageworks, a financial analysis firm that specializes in private companies going public...
...home to lead battles to unify Italy, was an international icon both during and after his lifetime. Though historians debate his tactical skills and political sense, few question his integrity, courage or charisma, which were chronicled for decades by writers from around the world. As such, Garibaldi remains a model that transcends time and ideology. As it happens, Massoud cut a physical figure similar to the Italian, graceful and bearded, and they shared a nickname: Garibaldi was known as the Lion of Caprera, for the island off Sardinia where he lived his later years. Though different in many other ways...
When Reed finally walks on stage in jeans and a sleeveless khaki-colored T-shirt, he looks - at least from the upper ranks of the auditorium - more like a Gap model than a 65-year old rock 'n' roll legend. He is joined onstage by an orchestra and a girl's choir, while a video-clip of a Berlin bar is projected onto the backrop. The atmosphere is tense; expectations are high. Does Reed still have "it" or has he "lost it", as the character Sick Boy maintains in the movie Trainspotting. Do these songs still resonate in a Berlin...