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Elfers started down the long road of repositioning the brand four years ago. A typical department store with 250,000 sq. ft. (about 23,000 sq m) can leverage its large size to get deep discounts on volume purchases. Lord & Taylor's petite 120,000 sq. ft. (11,000 sq m, aside from its New York store) made it tough to compete on promotions, price or depth of merchandise. So Elfers went smaller. In 2003 she closed 32 underperforming stores and then six more before the company's 2006 sale, placing the brand in higher-end markets. The profitable East...
...became the first incumbent Detroit mayor not to win a primary election. (He placed second in the Democratic primary, which allows the top two finishers to contest the general election.) He bounced back after urging voters to focus on his administration's management, rather than his style, pointing to road and sidewalk improvements and new recreation centers. However, a leader's effectiveness is partly tied to perception, and that's potentially risky in a city whose recovery is so fragile. Given his decision to fight the court award, many in Detroit are now asking...
Simpson's civil attorneys in California first referred the former pro athlete to Galanter when he moved from Los Angeles to the Miami area in September of 2000. But it was not until three months later that they met. That was when Simpson became involved in a road rage incident in which he was accused of reaching into another vehicle and ripping eyeglasses off the face of its driver. Simpson showed up at Galanter's office shortly after. "I actually came back one day and he was sitting in my conference room," Galanter tells TIME...
...start of the road rage trial in October 2001, Simpson apparently had so much confidence in Galanter that he entered the Miami courtroom whistling, "If I Only Had a Brain." He has good reason to be impressed by Galanter. Simpson faced up to 16 years behind bars. But Galanter, 50, presented an interesting defense. Police had O.J.'s thumbprint on the pair of glasses worn by the man that Simpson allegedly cut off while driving his SUV in a Miami suburb. However, because the print was on the outside of the lens, Galanter argued Simpson hadn't grabbed the glasses...
...than one prosecutor in Miami acknowledges that no matter what Simpson does, he makes Galanter look good. "He was a nobody until he represented O.J. on a case that never should have gone to trial," says one Miami-based prosecutor who asked not to be named, referring to the road-rage case, adding "almost anybody could have won that." Since then, Galanter has parlayed his connection to Simpson into regular appearances on TV talk shows analyzing a variety of criminal cases, including the Kobe Bryant rape accusation and the Scott Peterson murder trial...