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...launched a takeover of Gucci last year, quietly acquiring more than 20% of its outstanding shares--which he still holds--and then making an $8.7 billion bid for the whole firm, Gucci struck back by emulating the very business that was trying to acquire it. Gucci CEO Domenico De Sole and creative director Tom Ford started purchasing premium fashion brands in a bid to become a luxury superpower to rival LVMH...
...seems to indicate that roadblocks are being thrown in the way of the juvenile justice system that are preventing it from meeting its major goal. Unlike the adult justice system, which has the simultaneous aims of punishing and rehabilitating convicted criminals, the juvenile system was established with the sole goal of rehabilitation. And it's no secret that incarceration - particularly in the adult prison system - is less likely to be rehabilitative than alternative punishments, such as drug treatment and group therapy. This study suggests that wayward minority youths, particularly African-Americans, are given less of a chance at rehabilitation than...
Sophomore right-hander Chaney Sheffield's second start of the year was a quality one for the Crimson. In his five innings of work, he allowed the Huskies' sole run on two hits and struck out three. Sheffield also picked off two base-runners at first, but he also walked four batters...
What's most troubling in all this, though, is not the French mindset, but the American - the insularity of Americans in their role as the smug, sole superpower, and even worse (because it is potentially dangerous), their apparent lack of curiosity about what goes on in the rest of the world. The stupid side of the American exceptionalism has always been the American narcissism. It's a paradox that globalization seems to make the narcissism worse...
Looking at the games these teams have played this season, Harvard has to be considered an underdog. Cornell has beaten many of the same teams by wider margins than Harvard beat them, and its sole loss was by one goal to a Top 10 team...