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...brand a new look. "Desirability is the main focus," says Atwood. To begin, he dipped into the 157-year-old company's archives of some 13,000 pairs of shoes for inspiration. After pulling ideas to meld into new designs, Atwood set to work creating special pieces for the modern woman. "It's a very fast-moving consumer," he says. "We have to give them the product that they need." He's off to a good start: recent designs include quilted patent-leather beauty cases and a luxurious shoe bag that holds as many as six pairs of shoes...
...efforts on the launch of the C1, a high-tech 44-mm chronograph with a 53-piece case. Says Concord's U.S. president, Alex Grinberg: "With the introduction of the C1, this is really what we stand for and what our true identity is. It's about being unexpected, modern and innovative." The C1's price, starting at $9,400, is a jump above the brand's old median, and smaller production runs and fewer outlets?just 2,000 pieces in 2008 and 25 dealers in the U.S.?are further signs of Concord's new direction. Down the road...
...people to this. Perhaps Huckabee’s exodus from the ring has left the Late-Night Comedy Demographic rudderless and open to suggestion. Yet watching Hillary’s efforts to wangle a laugh out of the American people serves as a reminder of the closest parallel between modern politics and comedy: both are startlingly devoid of women. Why is this? There are few holdout “man’s jobs” nowadays. The priesthood? University presidency? Women demolished those glass ceilings eons ago. So why do female comics and female politicians remain rare enough that...
...life bringing Christianity to the region. People in the United States began observing the holiday after massive Irish immigration and the establishment of Irish communities in the early 20th century. But the focus of the day has shifted from religious ceremonies to ethnic pride and parties in modern times. “Fun, green, drunkenness,” Marissa L. Long ’08 said at the Woodbridge Society’s St. Patrick’s Day party on Saturday. “I’m Catholic—I’ve lived in Boston...
...coca, the raw material of cocaine. It may not sound as important as the diplomatic row that shook the region earlier this month. But the dispute is momentous for millions of people in Bolivia and Peru - where the coca leaf is sacred to indigenous culture and a tonic of modern life - and for anti-drug officials in the U.S. and other countries who are desperate to stem the relentless flow of cocaine. Says Silvia Rivera, a sociology professor at San Andres University in Bolivia's capital, La Paz, "This is the most aggressive attack [Bolivians] have faced" since...