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...competition in fashion-comfort wear has shoe maven and niche pioneer Taryn Rose smiling proudly. A trained orthopedist who relies solely on word of mouth for advertising, Rose sells her collections for several hundred dollars a pair at department stores like Neiman Marcus. "When I leave this earth," she says, "I hope I leave behind the legacy that I stood up and said, 'You don't need to sacrifice for fashion.'" Thousands of women with sore feet stand with...
...watch Peter Hart conduct a focus group of more or less undecided voters. Focus groups are a powerful political aphrodisiac: civilians tell the wizards how to rub them the right way. But they are also an insidious reversal of the political process, turning followers into leaders. Watching Hart, a pioneer and master of the idiom, trying to elicit responses from a surly group of citizens, I began to wonder whether focus groups have outlived their usefulness. The group was almost entirely predictable. They said Bush was a regular guy and Kerry seemed aloof. They said they wanted more specifics from...
...which promotes a technology it calls Blu-ray. Sony senior vice president Kiyoshi Nishitani, a battle-tested engineer who heads up the Blu-ray initiative, says his company began work on the new technology four years ago and quickly enlisted Matsushita (best known for its Panasonic brand), Philips and Pioneer, among others, as allies in its cause. All was going well, he claims, until Toshiba decided to ruin the party. "We have had many, many meetings with Toshiba," Nishitani says. But when it came to explaining the benefits of joining the alliance to his counterparts at Toshiba, he adds with...
...North America and parts of Asia and Latin America) and GSM networks (used everywhere else). Verizon is offering the Samsung a790 for $350 with a two-year contract, with international calling rates starting at $1.29 a minute in the most-developed countries. Samsung is using semiconductors from CDMA pioneer Qualcomm, which was the first to integrate the competing network technologies on one set of chips. Qualcomm has also licensed the dual chips to LG and Motorola, which plans to roll out its first global phone in the fourth quarter but has yet to announce a carrier...
DIED. HERBERT HAFT, 84, pharmacist and discount-store pioneer; in Washington. Haft opened his first shop, Dart Drug, in 1955, and slashed prices on everything from nonprescription drugs to toothpaste. Sued by manufacturers who set prices, Haft ultimately prevailed in a 1960 Supreme Court ruling that triggered a retailing revolution. A family struggle for control of his empire in the early 1990s sundered his marriage and left some of his holdings bankrupt. Haft ceded control in 1997, taking a $50 million settlement...