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...future as Elfers and Baker do. "Lord & Taylor is a problem child, a tarnished brand, and has a long way to go," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates Inc., a national retail-consulting firm. "I am not sure, in the current competitive climate, that Lord & Taylor can stand on its own two feet and be a survivor." Davidowitz points to the fact that Baker paid top dollar for a minnow in a sea of powerful retail companies. The store is loaded with debt while seeking to find its niche and customer base. "Baker knows the mall...
...front-page piece on the planned Allston expansion ("Allston Adopts CO2 Caps," news, Sept. 18) gave due praise to Harvard for taking a firm and measurable stand on sustainability. It fails, however, to extend that praise to one of the real "greening" forces on campus: the student body...
...It’s hard for anyone to stand up and say that it’s a good thing that only 45.9 percent of graduating seniors know that the line ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’ comes from the Declaration of Independence,” Andrews said. “It’s hard to turn that into a partisan issue...
...stand here this evening," said Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee Monday night, "I can't tell you whether there are 60 votes for Levin-Reed." Yet he knows that the task of changing U.S. policy on Iraq is a long game. Even if the measure eventually is adopted, Levin noted on Monday, the President is likely to veto it. Levin pledged to be as patient about finding 67 votes to override such veto in the future as he has been about getting to 60 votes in the last 16 months...
Blackwater's killing of at least nine civilians in downtown Baghdad Sunday leaves the Bush Administration with a hard choice. Either leave an intolerable status quo in place, and stand by a 2004 Coalition Provisional Authority edict that puts security contractors above Iraqi law. Or divert military resources to replace private security contractors...