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...personal popularity has even convinced many voters to overlook the corruption scandals that forced many of his closest advisors to resign and destroyed the credibility of his Workers' Party (PT). "Lula is no saint, he probably steals a little," said Silvana de Oliveira, an unemployed mother who gets $30 a month from his government. "[But] without the Bolsa Familia I couldn't afford anything. It isn't a lot, but people in precarious situations like me count...
...individual who has spent his entire life earning, justifiably and on the merits, a reputation as one of the foremost mathematicians of our time.” Indeed, Yau was construed as a cheater trying to cash in on a loophole, while Perelman came off as a brilliant, ascetic saint who coasted above the fray. The 10,000-word piece was accompanied by a full-page caricature which depicted an angry Yau snatching the Fields Medal from the neck of a serene, bearded Perelman. Now Yau is fighting back, fervently denying the accusations and demanding an apology from the magazine...
Humanities 10, “An Introductory Humanities Colloquium,” Humanities 12, “‘Strange Mutations’: Classical and Renaissance Representations of the Human Condition,” and Humanities 16, “Existential Fictions: From Saint Augustine to Jean-Paul Sartre and Beyond” will all count for Literature and Arts A credit...
Global luxury has wrought billion-dollar businesses and dizzying amounts of dealmaking?which means that today's fashion stars aren't only those manufactured in schools like London's Central Saint Martins or New York City's Parsons. A whole new breed of fashion influencers are formed at hard-core business schools like Harvard, HEC, ESSEC and Bocconi where the syllabus doesn't include patternmaking but rather an altogether different kind of intangible skill set, namely the ability to manage intensely creative talent. Dior president Sidney Toledano, a graduate of the top French engineering school ECP, compares the structure...
Floriane de Saint Pierre, a Paris-based headhunter whose clients include Gucci Group, placed both the CEO of Yves Saint Laurent, Valrie Hermann?who came from rival Christian Dior?and its designer, Stefano Pilati. De Saint Pierre says fashion managers are hard to find because the job is paradoxical. "If management is a science that can be taught, fashion is about culture, so you need to have absorbed all the theory yet have totally surpassed it. Fashion management is about driving a brand with fast-changing products, yet it is also long-term artist management. Managers must...