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...trip to Bilbao, Spain, two years ago, Lotti was struck by the wildly spiraling metallic towers of the Guggenheim Museum. "It looked so different from everything around it," he recalls. "I wanted to do the same thing with a shoe." Eighteen months later, Nike unveiled the Air Max Specter, a slip-on sneaker with an upper sole of grooved, sinuous curves, available in the same titanium gray as the museum's exterior. The shoe became the season's No. 1 seller...
First, George W. Bush twitted Europeans' environmental correctness by deciding to let the United States sit out the Kyoto treaty on global warming. Then he offended their sophisticated moral sensibilities with his plainspoken bluster about "the axis of evil." But last week, U.S. unilateralism struck an especially sensitive part of Europeans' anatomy: their pocket books. In a decision that seems directly to contradict the free-market gospel that is America's chief political export, Bush imposed protectionist tariffs of 8% to 30% on foreign steel...
...pressure tactics PSLM used were instrumental in winning concessions at the negotiating table. No doubt the ratio of 5 students to 3 labor organizers to 1 janitor arrested in their choreographed mock civil disobedience struck fear into the university...
After a scoreless second period, the Harvard power play struck again early in the third. This time, Pettit got the puck at his sweet spot above the right faceoff circle and blasted it by Danis to make it 3-0 just 27 seconds...
...fourth game the Crimson quickly grabbed the lead, but was once again tied up at 14-14 and again at 21-21. Kowell buried a forceful kill to push Harvard ahead by one, but the Brewers struck back and used an ace and key block to pull away...