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...sample-sale alchemy is that the merchandise is of a high order. Whereas other discount sites source from third parties, Wilson and Maybank and their company, Gilt Groupe, based in New York City, work directly with each design house. "We are actually helping a lot of designers, especially in these challenging times, because we are able to sell so much volume that our sales are meaningful to designers." So meaningful that a recent Hervé Léger sale sold out in 45 minutes. Indeed, since the November 2007 launch, membership has grown to more than half a million, with several thousand...
...fashion's loftiest ranks, the concepts of luxury and discount go together about as well as navy and black, except in one rarefied setting: the sample sale. Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson set out to re-create that élite, high-adrenaline environment with their members-only retail site, gilt.com Every day the site plays host to fashion sales, which, just like the real thing, fling open the doors to the current wares of a single designer?Zac Posen, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Alessandro Dell'Acqua?at insider prices ranging from 50% to 70% off. All sales...
Senior Dara Wilson posted a season-best 14.46 in the 100-meter hurdles as one of three Harvard competitors to finish second in an event. Sophomore Hilary May’s 800-meter performance of 2:12.86 not only marked a second-place effort, but also a new outdoor best for the sophomore. Classmate Thea Lee earned fourth in the event by dropping more than a second from her personal best with a 2:15.24. With so many quality showings early in the season, Crimson coach Jason Saretsky pointed to the effect of group mentality within the squad...
...Nixon's China trip was successful, but it's not as if he ended a war. Woodrow Wilson's trips in 1919 to the Paris Peace Conference, however, led to the signing of the Treaty of Versailles at the end of the first World War. During the second, Franklin D. Roosevelt, one of the most widely-traveled U.S. presidents in history, journeyed all over the world to confer with leaders about the conflict. In 1945, near the end of WWII, he attended the Yalta Conference in the Soviet Union with the other Allied leaders, and the end result...
...Crimson in the 1600-meter sprint medley with a time of 4:01.97.For the men’s team, sophomore Ryan Neely placed third in the 3000-meter run, while the Harvard distance medley team of juniors Vito Cannavo and Robert Kenney, and freshmen Jaques Barjon and Darcy Wilson, claimed gold.In the last events of the day, Weiler placed second in the pole vault and Farnsworth placed third in the javelin throw. Senior Neville Irani and sophomore Eric Clayman also claimed the top two positions in the hammer throw to close out a successful week...