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...makes deracinated college students feel as if they're at home, urban hipsters feel as if they're in the country and suburban yuppies in ranch houses feel like aristocrats, all for a reasonable price. Restoration Hardware founder Stephen Gordon, no stranger to selling nostalgia, compares Gold with Ralph Lauren: "He doesn't really offer a 1930s suit, because nobody would wear it, but he offers the associations of a 1930s suit...
Your article danced around the idea of a possible White House scandal while offering the weakest support of the allegations I have ever read. So five years ago, while George W. Bush was Governor of Texas, Karl Rove recommended Ralph Reed for a job at Enron. How is that illegal or unethical? And a few sentences in a government report may have been altered at the suggestion of Ken Lay. But that is unimportant, because the energy policy the report advocated was never enacted by Congress. You need to focus on fair and balanced reporting. DAN LONG Huntingdon Valley...
...California feel of the natural beauty of the landscape [in Sheng’s photographs], the light, the interiors and the handsome male model parody the commercial photography used in Calvin Klein, Abercrombie & Fitch and Ralph Lauren advertisements,” Hull explains. Hull sees Sheng’s work as “deconstructing commercial photography and beauty at the same time—unveiling what is a very complicated idea of constructing these scenarios that look very casual but are seen in commercial, fine art and documentary photography.” Hull also appreciates the personal elements...
...When Ralph Nader sees eye-to-eye with Merrill Lynch, something mighty weird is going on. For centuries, investors demanded cash dividends as current compensation for the risk of a future loss. But then, in the heat of the 1990s bull market, many managements, especially at tech firms, tried a new line: Don't ask us to pay cash dividends, because we can maximize your returns by reinvesting every penny in our growing businesses. And if you wait to take your profits as long-term capital gains, argued these managements, you'll pay less in taxes than you would...
...chairman of Capital Research & Management Co., the nation's third largest mutual-fund manager, thinks of dividends as a defense mechanism. "Dividends act as a check on corporate hubris," he explains. "Giving some money back to shareholders gives the shareholders the ability to decide what to do with it." Ralph Nader complains to TIME that Microsoft is "piling up $50 million a day. It tells shareholders that the only way they can benefit from Microsoft shares is to sell. That isn't good enough. Shareholders own the company--it's their money...