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...Eduardo Castro-Wright could see the problem instantly. One of his first exercises as the newly appointed president of Division No. 1, the highfalutin internal designation for Wal-Mart's 3,500-unit domestic discount chain, was to map every underperforming store in the country. Most of the worst were clustered around big coastal cities like Boston and Los Angeles. As he toured those stores, Castro-Wright could sense they weren't connecting with their neighborhoods. And neither were the managers--they weren't in Arkansas anymore. "You'd talk to managers and they...
...know what? So has Wal-Mart. Under Castro-Wright's prodding, Wal-Mart is trying to become a local merchant again. It is moving managers away from the all-powerful Bentonville, Ark., headquarters and closer to the customers. It is developing snazzier and highly efficient store designs to entice existing customers to shop more broadly across the store rather than just for groceries and health- and beauty-care products. "We have enough customers," insists Scott, 57, who can boast that nearly 20 million Americans shop at a Wal-Mart every day. But while they're happily buying toys, toothpaste...
...than the failed neo-liberal ’90s.Chávez is most definitely not alone, for he has actively funded his ideological allies to allow them to take power across the region, especially when America remains disengaged. Evo Morales in Bolivia, Rafael Correa in Ecuador, the everlasting Castro in Cuba, and Kirchner in Argentina have all benefited from Chavez’s petrodollars in the form of infrastructure deals, bond buy-outs, and outright gifts. And yet, even for self-declared neo-socialists like the Venezuelan president, there is no such thing as a free lunch. With different...
...half-Cuban, half-Polish father-in-law - he's one part que pasa, one part kielbasa - loves their cancer-surviving, Castro-despising, Cuban-American third baseman, Mike Lowell. And I can see why. He's as humble a World Series MVP as there has ever been...
...depiction of herself—which shows Bringsjord posed in front of a refrigerator, milk bottle in hand—is a letter explaining her work. “This piece was about me learning to control the way people view me,” the letter reads. Andres Castro Samayoa ’10, an intern at the Women’s Center whose art is featured in the show and, said it was “exciting” to use the theme of the Harvard experience to reflect upon his time here. He combined work from...