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...founders are retired (although very much looming on Paris' Left Bank), and since 1999 the company has been owned by the Gucci Group, a division of one of France's largest conglomerates, Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (PPR). Managers and designers have come and gone, yet none of them have been able to take on the YSL legacy and create something new?and lucrative...
...opening of T5, as the new terminal is known, should help tackle another of BA's weaknesses: its much criticized hub. "BA has a fundamental challenge none of its European peers suffer from," says Chris Avery, an airline analyst at JPMorgan in London. "Heathrow is stretched to its limits." Conceived for 45 million passengers a year, it sees almost 70 million annually endure its crowded terminals and snaking lines. Airlines wait longer for gates to clear, and creaking baggage-handling equipment is prone to breakdowns. Though it can't ease runway congestion--Heathrow's "Achilles' heel," says Avery...
...suitcase of athletic clothes to last about a week. For other Tulane students—such as Tommy E. Slattery, a freshman and native of New Orleans, and Ahmed A. Salahudeen, a sophomore from Jackson, Miss.—evacuation was coupled with a sense of foreboding, but none could expect devastation on the scale of Katrina...
...that poor, people should by all means act like assholes, even if that is not their natural calling. That said, a section overflowing with assholes carries its own liabilities. Arguments flare, egos collide, and substance is forgotten. Such sections ideally need the direction of an assertive TF, but when none is forthcoming, the collective geniality and good humor of everyone else can help to ease tensions. People should step up more often. Much more common than rancorous, intra-section feuds, however, are uncomfortable silences. Nothing can kill good discussion like a dose of garden-variety, Harvard-style awkwardness. In this...
When asked if any of them favored a complete a withdrawal of troops, Allison, Bilmes, and Sewall were all sympathetic to such a plan, but none felt that realities on the ground permitted a complete withdrawal...