Word: unexpectedness
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While athletes tallied up their Olympic medals in Torino, an hour's journey east in Milan another kind of Olympics played out last week: the style games. And, just like Olympians, Italian fashion designers divide into opposing teams - but instead of medals, they compete for the attention and the dollars...
In some ways, the bearded and mellow-voiced Chris N. Hanley ’07is the George Lucas of the Harvard theater world. He’s deceptively relaxed, an industry outsider—this is the third show he’s ever directed, and none of those three...
Dora by nature fears oppression and responsibility (she had briefly left Paul, finding him dour), but her time at the Abbey changes her. By the end of the novel Dora senses that the habitual life of the religious offers her the possibility for an unexpected kind of freedom.
When Seagram bought Polygram in 1998 for $10.6 billion, the French-born ceo Alain Levy found himself out of a job. Not for bad performance: Levy had turned PolyGram into the world's largest music company by a combination of organic growth and strategic acquisitions at a time when CD...
(2 of 3) EMI had draft plans to sell digital music and combat piracy, but was forced to shelve them just to focus on its core operations. "The company was in such a bad spot in terms of both earnings and capital structure, frankly, we didn't have time to...