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...Japan says it will monitor the pricing of other brands, including Japan's own uber-casual UNIQLO, but isn't fazed by the competition. "If you've seen one GAP, you've seen them all," says Andersson. He says one of H&M's strengths is that it can tailor a store for the customer in a particular neighborhood or shopping district. "An advantage at H&M is that we have a high density of stores in certain cities. In Stockholm we have 30, and people have their favorite H&M store...
...first, the class has since become a twice-a-week, one-on-one conversation with a great professor. While Tai says she would love the chance to introduce the subject to more students, having only one allows for focused instruction. “I can also try to tailor my lecture very specifically to that student,” she says, “building on what he knows and making connections that may be of interest...
...Democratic Opening in Little Havana, 1 p.m. E.T. Putting a finger to his lips, Heriberto Basurto says he always keeps his political thoughts to himself. That's because the 78-year-old tailor lives in Little Havana, where it's easy to get shouted down if you don't embrace the Republican preferences of the conservative Cuban exile community. But in recent years the demographics of working-class Little Havana have been changing dramatically - and non-Cuban Latinos like Basurto, who hails from Guayaquil, Ecuador, don't feel so much like the minority they were when he arrived in this...
...never has such conceptual larceny, such outright theft of not only theme but style, been seen this side of the Yangtze. Perhaps I didn’t fully realize the situation at that instant, but the experience certainly helped to stoke my fears that the financial incentive to tailor one’s art to mirror prevailing tastes might impede progress and override creativity. Fresh-out-of-art-school artists can make a decent living doing so, selling as much to new Chinese money as they can to naïve Manhattanites most likely inspired by an article in Sunday...
...assuaging freshman fears, the switch to pass/fail promotes the pedagogy and overall mission of the Law School as well. In any academic setting, letter grades have the power to create perverse incentives. Students are discouraged from academic exploration for fear of sullying their pristine GPAs and are pressured to tailor their comments and papers to satisfy the whims of their evaluators more so than their own intellectual leanings. In addition, at least in the humanities, a strict grading system forces professors to create hard and often arbitrary distinctions between works that cannot easily be compared. In most academic environments, these...