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...story of the first volume starts like a typical shojo book might, with a bunch of school girls tormenting their cute classmate Takako. But in this version, they jump on top her and make her lunch vegetables squirt out her nose. She decides "I'll open my heart and reach out to them! Then they'll stop bullying me!" Instead they throw her in the pool and force her to eat octopus (the Japanese word for octopus, tako, sounds like Takako). Overnight she sprouts octopus legs and wreaks hideous revenge by stuffing her tentacles into her rival's mouths...
Indeed, the price range--$147 to $598 for a jacket and $172 to $448 for a dress--means that Elie Tahari is within reach of more women than are designer tags like Prada or Gucci. But the real secret to Tahari's success, according to the designer's wife Rory, who is the brand's creative director, is the way the clothes fit. "Elie doesn't do fittings on models; he fits the samples on real women," she says. And customers respond. Ann Stordahl, executive vice president for women's apparel at Neiman Marcus, says that Elie Tahari...
Anderton oversees the ATP's new global-marketing fund, which will increase from $500,000 this year to $5 million next year and reach $10 million by 2009. To pay for it, De Villiers tapped sponsors and taxed tournament directors, insisting that better marketing creates money across the board. "He realizes that tennis is about show business," says Perry Rogers, an ATP board member and president of Agassi Enterprises...
From that point on, however, it was almost all Big Green. Dartmouth would tie the score before the period ended, then tack on four second-period goals to put the game out of reach...
...String Quartet op. 11, the Adagio is often performed by a full string section rather than just four players, which can muddy the sound and dilute the piece’s emotional impact. Bach Soc did encounter some of these problems by using all of their strings, and only reached a true pianissimo at the poignant end of the piece. The other count against the performance of the Adagio was no fault of the orchestra’s, but rather that of a moronic concertgoer, whose vibrating phone ruined the impact of the climactic grand pause. However, listening...