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...The epigrams at the start of each chapter are all from bards of the magical ordinary: Mary Oliver, Annie Dillard, Henry David Thoreau....
...Kirkland’s contribution to Dillard was part of a $12.5mn donation it made to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)....
...It’s like what Mark Fisher, the British cultural critic and political theorist, once said....
...The change, which Ackman is dubbing Pershing Square 3.0, marks a big shift in the way he invests after becoming one of Wall Street’s most high-profile and feared activists....
...Job moves Hertz has named former Ford Motor chief executive Mark Fields as its interim chief executive....
...He finished a very respectable 36th in the contest, but his 93 per cent average return at the halfway mark had shrunk to 30 per cent by the end....
...While investors who bought at the IPO or shortly after were nursing losses, Lyft short sellers were up $43m in mark-to-market profits on Friday, bringing the total post-IPO gain to $202.4m, S3 calculated...
...Calvin Klein, with those classic white boxer briefs that brought Marky Mark fame, is venerated in the American heartland....
...In the final of the men’s 100m that year, when Americans Harrison Dillard and Barney Ewell both clocked 10.3 seconds, the camera revealed that Dillard had won....
...The move also marks a decisive break from the model Mr Immelt inherited when he took over from Mr Welch in 2001....
...But Nordstrom, Kohl's and Dillard’s all saw sharper declines than Macy’s. Can Macy’s keep up the pace?...
...Gap, Dillard’s and Kohl’s climbed 8.8 per cent to $19.68, 6.9 per cent to $11.60 and 8.8 per cent to $51.01 respectively....
...This week marks the un-official start of second-quarter earnings season with Alcoa due to report its results on Tuesday....
...On Tuesday Wall Street stocks soared on news of capital raising by Lehman Brothers as investors bought back into the sector in hope that it could mark a turning point for the beleaguered financial sector...
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