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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...
Debora L. Spar, a 16-year-veteran of the Harvard Business School, will be the 11th president of Barnard College, the New-York-based women’s college announced Tuesday. At 44, Spar is more than two decades younger than her predecessor at Barnard, Judith R. Shapiro. “She’s got a lot of energy, and the room lights up when she walks in,” said Business School professor Janice H. Hammond. “The bulb is a little dimmer without her, as someone put it today.” While...
...Young Republicans As "America's oldest youth political organization," the Young Republicans (or "YRs," as they're also known) have united registered Republicans from 18 to 40-years-old since 1935, including notable alumni Florida Governor Charlie Crist and his predecessor, Jeb Bush...
...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...