| Secrecy prevailed among School Board before firing, Baker attorney ...
How can anyone have a problem with Calabrese doing his homework and talking with advisors? It seems RC was trying to do a good job. the same cannot be said for Ray "Why Nelson I will Just Look the Other Way" Baker or for Ron "How Many Lewd Emails Will It Take To have Sex With You" Miller .
Elizabeth Arden, Inc. Enters into Licensing Agreement with Iconix ...
NEW YORK, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Elizabeth Arden, Inc. (NASDAQ: RDEN) , a global prestige beauty products company, has entered into an exclusive global licensing agreement with Iconix Brand Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: ICON) ("Iconix") for the development, marketing and distribution of men's and women's fragrance, cosmetics, and skincare products with the leading lifestyle apparel brand Rocawear(R). A debut fragrance is planned to launch in the fall of 2008. "Elizabeth Arden and Iconix have a successful history together, and we are thrilled to grow our relationship with this dynamic collaboration," said E. Scott Beattie, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Elizabeth Arden. Iconix purchased the Rocawear brand in March of 2007. Rocawear is a dominant lifestyle brand with a wide range of customers and categories including sportswear, footwear, outerwear, handbags, belts, loungewear, big & tall, headwear, jewelry, sunglasses and children's clothing.
Indonesia's ailing Suharto eludes court
A worker displays the book about former President Suharto in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia,Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. Former Indonesian dictator Suharto's care during his two-week hospitalization has sparked quiet debate in this predominantly Muslim nation on end-of-life issues such as when to use ventilators and other machines to keep a patient alive. .
James Agee's Vision of Book Is Restored
Now, in the first volume of a planned 10-volume set of Agee's collected works and letters, the University of Tennessee Press has published a more richly detailed and chronological narrative that may be truer to Agee's plan. The result could be a revelation to readers puzzled by the book's jumbled italicized flashbacks and incongruous prologue -- the poetic and previously published essay "Knoxville: Summer of 1915."
Under the original edits, Agee's father became less of an individual and more of a universal parent. And a succession of copy editors turned a deaf ear to Agee's keen sense of "East Tennessee" dialect. In one of hundreds of entries, "bran new" became "brand new," for example.
The result of several years' research by Lofaro, the new "A Death in the Family, A Restoration of the Author's Text" carries the approval of the Committee on Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association and the support of the Agee family trust.
2nd Annual Cayman Islands Conference: Hedge Fund Best Practices
Marran Ogilvie is a Partner, Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of Ramius Capital Group, LLC. Ms. Ogilvie is also a member of the Senior Management Committee. Ms. Ogilvie joined Ramius in 1994, was appointed as its General Counsel in 1997 and as its Chief Operating Officer in 2007. She oversees the Firm's infrastructure areas which include legal, compliance, accounting, operations, technology and human resources. She is also involved in the strategic decision-making for Ramius products and its business. Ms. Ogilvie is NASD licensed as a Financial and Operations Principal, General Securities Principal, Municipal Securities Principal, Registered Options Principal, General Securities Representative, Commodity Futures Representative and Registered Equity Trader. In addition, she is a member of the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association.
Old Media Continues to Hide Major Reason for Ford's Free-Fall
Ford Motor Co., in the midst of a restructuring, fell to No. 3 in U.S. auto sales last year, as Toyota Motor Corp. posted its 12th straight year of record U.S. sales and moved up to second place behind General Motors Corp. Even though Ford held on to pickup leadership with its F-Series -- the nation's best-selling vehicle nameplate for 26 years and the best-selling truck for 31 years -- the company's Ford brand is no longer the nation's best-selling make (Note: Chevrolet now is -- Ed.). .
Other Fug Fixes
It looks like her elbows are wearing a wedding dress. They are the brides of Fuggenstein. And third, are Jennifer Love Hewitt's arms actually that freakishly short, or is it just an optical illusion? It reminds me of the Seinfeld Puffy Shirt. If she's going on the Today show tomorrow to hawk it for charity, I will feel bad. But not as bad as if I'd been forced to wear it. I'm beginning to understand why actresses become divas -- it's to stop stuff like this from happening to them at the hands of other people who don't understand how long a human's arms are supposed to look. However, this was not the most grievous offense of Rogue Costumer. That was merely the icing on this chewy, billowy, trouser cake. With apologies for the quality of the photos, behold: When she hopped out of the prop car in these pants, my friend and I quite seriously started yelling, “PANTS! PANTS! PANTS!" and had to pause the TV to stare at each other, frantically gesturing our amazement because we had completely lost the power of speech.
TPPF Conference
Conservatives shouldn't be afraid to be conservatives, even if it loses them debates and candidates. That was the message South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford brought to the Texas Public Policy Foundation's sixth annual "policy orientation" for the Texas Legislature. The two-day meeting, held Jan. 9-10 at the Sheraton, was an opportunity for the conservative think tank to tell Texas legislators what they think real conservatives care about. The assembled crowd of politicians, staffers, agency heads (e.g., Public Utilities Commission Chair Barry Smitherman and state Comptroller Susan Combs), and delegates from business lobbies and pro-deregulation think tanks heard the key theme summed up by closing speaker Gov. Rick Perry. "My philosophy of life, leadership, and governance," he said, "has pretty much boiled down to one word: 'competitiveness.'" Steering clear of some more controversial issues, like abortion and prayer in school, the foundation pointed to ways to get business into government (more fiscal openness, more private contractors) and government out of business (deregulation, private health insurance, and school vouchers).
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