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...million had failed to accomplish: she has boosted excitement, crowds and campaign coffers virtually overnight. She has lifted McCain in the polls, has put Obama into confusion and is living out a Cinderella story unlike any other in recent political history, though the ending is still a slipper of uncertainty. Even Palin seems astonished by it all. Gazing out at thousands from a platform in Sterling Heights, Mich., she shakes her head, dumbfounded for a moment as the crowd chants her name. Her mouth forms a word, mumbled silently to herself: "Wow," she says...
...returns as a movie this summer--it's no coincidence. Cashmere is produced by Star, Lipstick by Candace Bushnell, who wrote the newspaper column SATC was based on. SATC combined a fashion-conscious urban fairy tale with sharp observation of the trade-offs working women face: a little glass slipper, a little glass ceiling. It was a love story that was also about loving yourself; the series ended with Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) persuading wealthy flame Mr. Big to move to New York City--where her life and career were--rather than moving...
...central conflict is between landlord Gustave Marcassol (Jaime Williams) and his prim wife Claudine (Harvard theater veteran Masha O. Godina ’08), who, although together just a year, are already mired in the marital monotony of slipper-knitting and collar-starching...
...gulp!) on legislation. Then again, what are the options? There is no plausible front-runner. Each of the Republicans is flawed and flailing. The despair and hilarity as the various candidates try to squeeze into the conservative base's straitjacket, like the stepsisters struggling to fit into Cinderella's slipper, have been the gaudiest political show...
...slipper company hired the team as consultants in January 2004. At that time, the bank wanted two things: another lender and a plan to make Barry profitable within the year. Good and the bankers traveled to Mexico to tour the company's factories and warehouses. They were aghast to see three plants running full throttle in January while the warehouses were bursting with 12 million pairs of slippers. Whoops. Asked to explain, the operations manager declared that inventory was not his responsibility. The bank called in the loan, giving the company five weeks...