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...That's why it's been particularly hard for designer Frida Giannini, 35, to win the vote of her fashion constituents for the three years that she has been overseeing the creative direction of Gucci, the $3.1 billion (2.1 billion euro) apparel, fragrance and accessories juggernaut. Compared with her predecessor, the fashion rock star Tom Ford, Giannini cuts a low profile, and critics have called her runway shows everything from "hard to warm to" to "pedestrian." What most infuriates the front-row naysayers, of course, is that Giannini's style is working: in 2005 and 2006, Gucci reported...
...Last month, he said he hoped that the news of the appointment would come soon, pointing to the relief he has witnessed in his predecessor Gross, a man now free of the deanship’s responsibilities...
...Since he's made a point of reviving the bipartisan cooperation that his conservative predecessor, Jeb Bush, seemed to disdain, Crist also hopes the state's primary moment will point up "the kind of spirit of working together that is exactly what Americans are yearning for right now. They're tired of the bickering, and they want a new way of doing things in Washington." The G.O.P. presidential hopefuls, intentionally or not, seemed to pick up on that in their debate at Florida Atlantic University last Thursday, displaying a more civil tone than the recent spats between Obama and Hillary...
...That's especially true in Newcastle right now. The fortunes of its once promising football club - its current standing halfway down the league was bad enough to earn Keegan's predecessor the boot - have fallen in tandem with those of another of the city's institutions: club sponsor Northern Rock. So when the team's players kicked off a run of lackluster results last September, spooked savers across the U.K. began a run of their own on the bank whose roots in Newcastle stretch back 150 years. While the team was losing three of its five games that month, Northern...
Faust’s remarks in BusinessWeek, one of the first significant gaffes of her presidency, have not elicited major criticism from Harvard faculty members, many of whom voiced strong objections to controversial comments made by her predecessor, Lawrence H. Summers...