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...freshwater fishing's most voracious consumers. (Do you sense a metaphor rising?) It was Jacobs who made the connection between Mr. Bigmouth and Mr. and Mrs. Shopper in launching the FLW Tour 10 years ago. Those insights hooked Wal-Mart, which became the tour's lead sponsor in 1997 at the behest of an executive and bass angler named Lee Scott, who is now the company...
After a year-long fundraising campaign that kicked off last fall, the Harvard Caribbean Club collected enough cash to sponsor a six-week summer camp for Trinidadian children infected with...
Back in 1990, Robert Oxnam was on top of the world. He had parlayed an academic career as a China scholar into the presidency of the prestigious Asia Society, the leading sponsor of cultural, educational and artistic contact between the U.S. and Asia. And because the late '80s were a time of increasing political unrest in China--culminating in the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre--Oxnam, now 62, was frequently tapped by political leaders to help them figure out how to deal with the Chinese. He even accompanied former President George H.W. Bush as an on-the-ground adviser...
...employer to subsidize the costs, they are unable or unwilling to pay the full cost of dental insurance. Those few who still seek to obtain dental care face an additional hurdle: since no companies sell individual dental insurance policies in Massachusetts, students must buy their plan through a group sponsor...
Lacoste's popularity at the Open--the elegant croc outcooled the oversized pony of official sponsor Polo in straight sets--was emblematic of the brand's astonishing turnaround over the past three years under the tutelage of Robert Siegel, who took over the company as a project for his retirement--or perhaps to avoid it. A self-proclaimed clotheshorse, Siegel had made a name for himself during his 29-year career at Levi Strauss, where he launched the hugely successful Dockers brand in 1986. Siegel left Levi's to run Stride Rite, then headed south to Charleston, S.C., to contemplate...