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...Crew: CEO Mickey Drexler managed to take a company that competed with the Gap selling t-shirts and khakis and revamp its merchandise on quality and price. He made the designer business affordable through brilliant product development. Now customers get cashmere sweaters and tailored suits for less than high-end labels. "It's perceived exclusivity," says Chen. "It's pretty accessible and for their customer it's a bargain." J. Crew might still sell some basics, but they do it better than anyone else. Their fiscal year ended February 2 with revenues increasing 16% and comparable store sales...
Makiya, he said, “has stood for his convictions, and paid the price for his convictions, and has always, in every way, behaved in an honorable manner...
...months leading up to the invasion of Iraq, Bush administration officials estimated the war’s price tag at as much as $200 billion—a figure officials quickly disputed as “too high...
...Iraqi expatriate, saying, “Look, this is the first and only chance in my lifetime for my people to create a decent society.” “At the time,” Ignatieff said in a recent interview, “I thought the price was worth it.” THINK AGAIN Ignatieff has described this conversation with Makiya, who appears only as a nameless Iraqi expatriate, in two separate New York Times Magazine articles about his own position on the war. It is a memory he keeps returning to, as if by describing...
...torture. This dramatic change in position reflects McCain’s attempt to reach out to President George W. Bush’s many enthusiastic far-right supporters; he is unabashedly trying to solidify his Republican base to win the presidency. Sacrificing principle for power is evidently a price Senator McCain is willing to pay. Indeed, torture isn’t the only issue on which McCain is willing to flip-flop. After criticizing Reverend Jerry Falwell for being an “agent of intolerance,” McCain delivered a commencement speech at the “Moral...