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...feeding on the good and innocent among Harvard’s men, disorienting them first with her J.Crew good looks and then sucking out their hearts through an alien-like suction tube that projects from her skull cavity. On Valentine’s Day, she was back at her perch in wait for her next victim. Many wonder when, if ever, her reign of terror will end. The answer appears to be when hell freezes over, because O’Malley seems to have no intention of graduating before then...
Stone is preparing the team to be focused and not suffer the same lesson Dartmouth learned this weekend. After dropping two games to then-No. 5 St. Lawrence–3-0 and 3-2, respectively—Dartmouth fell two spots from its perch as best in the nation, while the Saints climbed...
...From her perch, she has also taken on social issues and urged others in the industry to do the same. "I have always believed that it is important to understand Vogue's mission in broad and socially responsible terms," she says. Last year she got Vogue to contribute money to open beauty salons in Kabul, creating jobs for newly liberated Afghan women; a story on the project ran in the magazine. After 9/11, she organized the sale of specially designed T shirts to benefit a Twin Towers fund and spearheaded a p.r. campaign to get people shopping again...
...surprise that from her perch at the top of Europe's leading executive-search firm for the fashion and luxury industries, Saint Pierre demonstrates a philosophy--and forte--of recruiting top-level hires who have a particular brand in their blood. "For me, each brand is like a tribe, a clan," she says. "The managers and designers need to be in total osmosis with the essence of the brand. It is like a marriage...
...slot called ?The Osgood File? (it?s run on 350 stations) as well as serving, for five years, as a host of the CBS morning show, which for 50 years now has been broadcast live from the Death Valley of Nielsen ratings. ?CBS SM? was the ideal perch for him, his soothing FM voice replacing Kuralt?s cracker-barrel baritone. The transition was seamless. Under current executive producer Rand Morrison, ?CBS SM? has picked up the pace but never swerved off-course...