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Turck Paquelier is one of the few senior executives L'Oreal has hired from the outside. After 13 years at Procter & Gamble and five at Yves Saint Laurent Parfums, she was chosen by L'Oreal to balance the needs of designers and of L'Oreal chairman and CEO Lindsay Owen-Jones. In Turck Paquelier's first six years at the company, she tripled L'Oreal's Armani business. By 2002, the brand was bringing in about $429 million a year in sales...
Research Professor of Astronomy and History of Science Owen Gingerich said he remembered Hawkins from his work at the Harvard-Smithsonian Observatories, where Hawkins was the scientist in charge of the Harvard Radio Meteor Project. Hawkins was “looking for radar echoes off the meteors,” to ascertain their height and velocity and thus be able to find meteor showers in the daytime...
Such anxiety may result from the fact that Wilson drifted into acting by accident. In his early 20s, he was, by his own description, "floundering," when he was drafted into the profession by his older brother Owen, who needed cheap labor for a movie he was working on with his friend Wes Anderson. "Acting came at the right time," says Luke. "It gave me something to focus on." The movie, Bottle Rocket, was little seen by audiences but admired enough by the industry that the trio reteamed for the successively higher-budget and higher-profile films Rushmore and The Royal...
...Luke, Owen and their eldest brother Andrew have all relocated to Los Angeles, although in coming months they will visit Texas to work on a film written by Luke that he will co-direct with Andrew. Luke will play the lead, a fast-talking huckster trying to go straight. But as close as the brothers are, Luke expresses some impatience about the frequency with which people ask about his relationship with his flashier brother Owen. "What can I say but I love the guy?" he says. "I hold him above me, as a writer and an actor." Then he adds...
...History of Science Emeritus, “came to Harvard at a critical time…when the natural science courses wanted to use a case study approach which intimately involved the history of science,” said Research Professor of Astronomy and History of Science Owen Gingerich...