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Just as the starchy, bow-tied, dress-for-success suit is an artifact of an earlier age, The Power of Nice argues that the bossy broad that early self-help authors championed is outdated. Nice is the new mean, insist co-authors Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval. They bravely--and persuasively--endorse a more traditional feminine style. Says Koval: "The business world has developed in a male culture, where the worst thing that a man could say to another man is, 'You're a wimp. You're not tough enough.' As women came into business, a lot of them...
...reaches for fashion terms to make her point about how female ambition is thwarted: "A staple of movies, novels and TV: the hard-charging female executive in her Armani power suit and Manolo heels. She's smart, aggressive, successful--and most people can't wait to see her get her well-deserved comeuppance...
...Theory in 1997 with former Anne Klein executive Andrew Rosen. The idea was to base a whole contemporary collection around stretch fabrics, particularly pants. Tahari sold his Theory stake for $53 million in 2003 (He is now suing Rosen for $182 million claiming "fraudulent self-dealing." Rosen calls the suit "a fantasy ... created in total disregard of the facts") and in 2004 made an unsuccessful bid to buy Barneys, the fashion department store. "It was a bitter battle," Rory says. "He really wanted that. Most people think of Elie as a wholesaler, but he's really a retailer at heart...
Deadria C. Farmer-Paellmann, a reparations activist who filed suit in 2002 against companies she alleges profited from slavery, claims in her suit that “money from the slave trade financed Yale University’s first endowed professorship, its first endowed scholarship, and its first endowed library fund...
...minorities and men access to graduate fellowships originally created for minorities and women and demanded the city government in Pontiac, Mich., end a program that required one of every three firefighters promoted to be a minority or a woman. And in Louisville and Seattle, white parents have filed suit against integration programs in those school districts that they say prevented their children from going to the school of their choice because of race. Those cases have now reached the Supreme Court...