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Community service is a good first step, but only grassroots political advocacy can save American democracy from corporate interests, Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader told an audience of 200 at MIT Monday...
Surrounded by hundreds of decanters of Dior's latest fragrance, J'adore, Bernard Arnault, 50, swivels in an ergonomic chair at the head of a metallic gray conference table on the 16th floor of midtown Manhattan's new LVMH tower. Forget Calvin, Ralph and even Giorgio or Miuccia--this narrow-faced, thin-lipped, dimpled Frenchman is the most powerful person in fashion today...
American firms like Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan and Calvin Klein are finding it increasingly difficult to compete against these global luxury superpowers. Tommy Hilfiger's stock has also lost luster (see box). So has Kiehl's, a 149-year-old posh beauty brand that was acquired last week by French global giant L'Oreal. In February, Klein, noting the sums Arnault has been paying and the increasingly treacherous fashion market, also put his company up for sale. Potential suitors--LVMH and Gucci among them--have shied away from Klein's privately held company because its licensing agreements would deny...
...most unexpected distraction of all: a tough re-election opponent named Lee Butler. Butler is the book's weakest link--the right-wing nightmare of a New Yorker political correspondent (Klein's day job). Butler launches his campaign with a series of Bible-study meetings, and he gets more Ralph Reedy from there. And you'll never guess: it turns out he's a hypocrite! In some literary precincts, apparently, this will be thought a clever twist...
...women and men. The Frothingham is just one example of a prize open only to men; in addition, there are a number of departmental awards and University-wide prizes exclusively given to male undergraduates, including the Shaw Fellowship, the Barbara Miller Solomon Prize, the William J. Bingham Prize, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, the Korean War Memorial Prize and the John P. Reardon Prize. Some male-only prizes have a female equivalent; others do not. This imbalance must be addressed...