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...showed up at J. Crew in 2003, no one was doing much of anything. Sales had dropped four out of five years running; the company's majority owner, private-equity firm Texas Pacific Group, had changed CEOs like last season's fashions, three in five years. On Drexler's watch, J. Crew rebounded dramatically, earning $3.8 million in 2005, its first profit since 2000. On March 13, the company reported 2006 sales of $1.15 billion, up 21%, and a healthy profit of $77.8 million...
...captivity. Today, John and Wright Mooar, the prodigious bison hunting brothers who helped lead the "Great Slaughter" in the late 1800s, are reviled for shooting so many bison on the open range. But, ironically, theirs was a more humane way of killing bison than ours. Last summer, I watched a bison heifer be led into the chute at the North American Bison Cooperative, a slaughterhouse in New Rockford, N.D. She became agitated, and she fought violently against the tight steel walls. It was painful to watch. Ahead of her, a door opened, and the heifer ran forward--into the waiting...
...that being tough on crime for the past three decades hasn't reduced the disproportionate number of criminals coming from certain areas. The Department of Justice now backs about 300 Weed and Seed programs nationwide, some in areas as small as a few square blocks. Police, prosecutors and neighborhood-watch groups collaborate to weed out the drug dealers and other undesirables, while public and private social-service providers seed the area with wholesome extracurricular activities, new community centers, job counseling and beautification projects that offer residents an alternative way of life. "Criminal justice isn't what makes people behave," Cadora...
...This is pretty amazing,” sophomore forward Katie Rollins said Monday night, when Harvard players and coaches gathered to watch the NCAA Selection Show at Donohue’s Bar and Grill in Watertown. “It’s just unbelievable to be playing the defending champions...
...finally decided to take the hit the other night and sat down to watch “Babel.” (It was good; we can talk about it later.) But I must admit that I’ve largely forgotten the movie itself, largely because of the horribly distracting trailer for “Black Snake Moan,” a film which opened on March 2 and whose concept can be described in one word: epic...