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...Burberry collections since teaming up with ceo Rose Marie Bravo in 2001 to inject new life into the revered British brand. Giannini's show, if not a full-scale palace revolution, proved at the very least seditious. There was no sign of the sexed-up Gucci girl that Tom Ford, the brand's imagemaker until two years ago, so famously unveiled in the mid-'90s. His successor has replaced the strutting vamp with an ingénue who saunters diffidently down the runway in a shrunken black pantsuit or a flirty 1940s floral print dress...
...industry where casting criteria other than talent?family ties, sex appeal, mob pressure?are often rumored to play a role, Bachchan rose to superstardom by delivering consistently towering performances. It also helped that he gave a lot of them: Sarkar ("boss" in Hindi), a stylish interpretation of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, is his 152nd movie. But Bachchan also had a profound connection to his public. In the 1970s and 1980s, as India stagnated under an autocratic government and the suspension of civil liberties during Indira Gandhi's 1975-1977 Emergency, Bachchan played a series of angry young...
...People like Rangel and Belafonte might do well to listen more closely to the next generation of black leaders-people like Obama and Congressmen Harold Ford of Tennessee, Artur Davis of Alabama and Sanford Bishop of Georgia-who emphasize both the need for more money to fight poverty and the need to change the behavior patterns of the poor. "Our priority has to be with whatever works, as opposed to the conventional wisdom within our group or our party," Obama said last week, adding that liberal and conservative solutions to poverty are not mutually exclusive. "It's not either/or...
Returns for fiscal year 2005 were exceeded only by those of 2001, in which Harvard raised $714 million, adjusting for inflation. Rapier attributed that year’s total to several unusually large gifts, including a $50 million gift from the Ford Foundation and four other gifts which met or exceeded $25 million...
...led—“kind of bubbled up based on the debates on campus and also the notion that it’s an issue intellectually anyway that has long been looked at in sociology,” said the sociology department’s new chair, Ford Professor of the Social Sciences Robert J. Sampson...