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...Kohl's have come to understand what their shoppers expect: great prices every day, ease of shopping and an exciting store," says Wendy Liebmann, founder of WSL Strategic Retail, a consultancy that publishes quarterly surveys on how Americans shop. "They're working hard to address the needs of the core, Middle America shopper...
...model and actress Daisy Fuentes. Next up in early 2007: a blockbuster partnership with designer Vera Wang and an exclusive housewares partnership with the Food Network. Says Kohl's president, Mansell: "We're creating an umbrella of 'only at Kohl's' to highlight our differentiation. It's what our core female customer wants." For the moment, private labels and exclusive national brands account for about a third of Kohl's revenues...
McCain says the Republican Party needs to get back to its core ideals. He says fiscal irresponsibility and pork barrel spending (there will be no “Bridges to Nowhere” under his watch) have contributed to disillusioned voters. He says that “there is no way to recover our majority without recovering our principles.” Agreed. But McCain’s hypocrisy makes him unfit to implement the necessary realignment...
...first few days shot up to No. 3 on the Amazon best-seller list. The panel members worked overtime on the launch, doing carefully choreographed rounds of interviews with reporters and anchors before Baker and Hamilton motored back to the Hill to start selling their plan to Congress. The core message: the Bush Administration has to work and think a lot harder to achieve even modest goals in Iraq--and should start by accepting the report in its entirety. "I hope," said Baker, "we don't treat this like a fruit salad and say, 'I like this...
Many analysts believe that to achieve the right balance between such core knowledge and what educators call "portable skills"--critical thinking, making connections between ideas and knowing how to keep on learning--the U.S. curriculum needs to become more like that of Singapore, Belgium and Sweden, whose students outperform American students on math and science tests. Classes in these countries dwell on key concepts that are taught in depth and in careful sequence, as opposed to a succession of forgettable details so often served in U.S. classrooms. Textbooks and tests support this approach. "Countries from Germany to Singapore have extremely...