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Although the dinner was a celebration of Bottega Veneta's new Avenue Montaigne store--a place that Maier designed right down to the boulangerie-style window display of rows of woven-leather accessories--there were other reasons for a fête. In addition to new lines of fine jewelry and furniture, Maier opened 18 stores in 2005; 10 more will make their debut this year. He has transformed Bottega Veneta, which is on its way to an estimated $238 million in sales this year, into PPR's second most successful label after Gucci--even surpassing the iconic Yves Saint Laurent brand...
...times before. He beat me so often you wouldn't believe it if I told you. Once, he grabbed me by the throat, held a knife to it, and said he'd butcher me like a lamb. Another time, he tried to throw me out of a 12-story window. Another, he beat me with a bicycle chain. By the time I took the children and ran away from him, we'd all seen a lot. He's in a hospital now in Paris, where they care for the mentally...
...HOUSE’ The Charlesview apartments are a mix of market rate rentals and Section-8 housing, a federal program for low-wage earners that requires them to attribute 30 percent of their income to housing while the city subsidizes the rest. According to a notice on the window of the manager’s office, rents at Charlesview range from $1,165-$1,494 a month. But if tenants are in exceptionally dire financial straits, the owners are accommodating, occasionally charging nothing—as happened the year Edna Archer lost her job.Archer, 42, came to the United States...
...huge picture window in Pinker’s office offers him a panoramic view of Harvard’s spires and cupolas. At MIT, where Pinker taught for 21 years, he says he spent most of the time in an office that had only a narrow slit for a window...
Terrill added that he happened across a department store window in Shanghai featuring a mannequin advertising green silk pajamas. That model was none other than Chairman...