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...says to look for a deal with Cinergy, based in Cincinnati, Ohio; Allegheny Energy in Hagerstown, Md.; or PPL of Allentown, Pa. All three companies produce and sell power on the wholesale market and also serve a large base of regulated retail customers. Hartmann is known as a careful shopper. When he explored a U.S. acquisition as CEO of Veba, the man on the other side of the table was Enron's Jeff Skilling. Hartmann walked away after deciding that the two companies' cultures and business models wouldn't mesh well together...
...Linden is once again lined with cafés. Down the street near Friedrichstrasse is the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, one of the city's newest museums and a showplace for the avant garde. (Tel. 20 20 93 0; Open daily 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.) Friedrichstrasse is a window shopper's paradise, with stores clustered around a three-building complex called the Fried-richstadt Passagen. At one end is the striking Galeries Lafayette, with an immense glass cone through its heart and a superb food center in the basement, where you can catch a reasonably-priced lunch of oysters...
...tops hark back to the hippie era. Loose and unstructured, they come mainly in white and pastels, often with embroidery. In detail and fabric, they tend toward the romantic, with ruffles around the neckline and cuffs, in chiffon and other sheer fabrics. The good news for the elite shopper: you can spend princely sums to dress like a pauper. Labels like Prada and Dolce & Gabbana offer tops that climb in price into the mid-three figures. If, however, you have a commoner's bank account, you have options at stores like the Gap and Zara, which sell the shirts...
...haven for the weary shopper at the end of an exhausting trek down Newbury Street, this cafe/bar/bookstore offers physical as well as spiritual revival. The menu proclaims, “The Trident is trying to redefine what success in business might be like following the Buddhist notion of right livelihood.” Said menu also offers “Momos” (traditional Tibetan dumplings) and the “Ying Yang milkshake” (vanilla ice cream and carrot juice), as well as the ever-popular “Perpetual Breakfast.” Be sure...
...line of sneakers, and the results--slip-ons in floral patterns or brocades, for example--are comfortable and versatile enough to wear with his own collections or even jeans from the Gap. Of course, at $240 to $590 a pair, they aren't targeted at the customary Gap shopper. But that's not the point, really. For these Adidases represent the high end of the hot new market that is women's sneakers; women now spend nearly $4.5 billion a year on athletic shoes, and the figure is growing fast...