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Read My Feet
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THE Italian entrepreneur Alberto Moretti, who recently revived the Tuscan leather-goods brand Arfango, claims to have many crazy ideas. His latest: a line of velvet loafers honoring his friend Lapo Elkann. As the story goes, Mr. Elkann, the Fiat heir, took such a liking to the Arfango slip-ons that he wore them all around Paris Fashion Week in February. Mr. Moretti, in return, had the shoes produced with an inscription on the sole: ''Dedicated to my friend Lapo Elkann by Alberto Moretti.'' The shoes will be sold in 33 shops worldwide, each in a limited supply of 33 pairs. Why 33? ''It's just another crazy idea,'' Mr. Moretti explained.

Lapo's shoes, $450, available in the United States only at Barneys New York.

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MOLDAW--Stuart G . March 25, 1927-May 24, 2008, a life-long business entrepreneur, philanthropist and friend to a wide range of civic, charitable and political organizations, died Saturday, May 24, 2008 at age 81. Mr. Moldaw, a loving husband, father and grandfather, is survived by his wife Phyllis, daughters Carol and Susan Moldaw, and four grandchildren. His wife and family were able to be with him during his illness and final hours of life. Mr. Moldaw, a pioneer in the specialty retail and clothing business, founded Ross Dress for Less in 1982 and was a founding investor in The Gymboree Corporation in 1986. Ross Stores is a Fortune 500 company with more than 900 locations, and Gymboree is a leading children's clothing and activity brand with 585 stores in the United States and Canada. Mr. Moldaw served as the Chairman of the Board at Ross Stores for more than a decade, and as Chairman Emeritus, he remained an active board member. He also was Chairman Emeritus of The Gymboree Corporation, and cofounded U.S. Venture Partners, a Menlo Park based venture capital firm.

Mr. Moldaw started his first company, Country Casuals, in 1958 in Palo Alto, California, and went on to develop a successful retail presence based on a passion for customer service, a belief in distinctive marketing and a drive for competitive pricing. He was known for his foresight into customer preferences and for recognizing and fostering the strengths of his business partners and associates. Mr. Moldaw was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and spent his childhood in Brookline. His father was a Russian immigrant who came to the United States amid his homelands civil war. In 1944, Mr. Moldaw enlisted in the U.S. Navy and was called to active duty aboard a troop transport ship, the Ulysses S. Grant. After the war, he attended Syracuse University on the G.I. Bill, graduating in 1949 with a bachelor's degree in Marketing and Economics. While attending Syracuse, he met his future wife, Phyllis Israelson of Portland, Maine. They married in August 1950. Soon after graduating college, he went to work for the Le Bon Marche, a department store in Lowell, Massachusetts, and later G. Fox & Co., a specialty department store in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1955, he moved to California to take a job with Lerner Shops, and he went on to open more than 20 Lerner stores during the late 1950s. Always entrepreneurial, he gave his notice at Lerners in the spring of 1959 and struck out entirely on his own. Beyond his business accomplishments, Mr. Moldaw was a great believer in people and what they could accomplish in life. ''He was an unforgettable man a visionary, entrepreneur, leader and philanthropist,'' said Norman Ferber, chairman of Ross Stores. Mr. Moldaw served on the boards of many San Francisco Bay Area non-profit groups, including the Moldaw-Zaffaroni Boys and Girls Club of East Palo Alto, REDF, Communities in Schools, the Jewish Community Endowment Fund and the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The San Francisco Ballet and KQED, and a leading supporter of 899 Charleston, a seniors living center in Palo Alto. In politics, he was a longtime, active Democrat who was appointed by President Clinton as a Public Delegate to the U.S. Mission at the United Nations in 1993 and as Chairman of the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars in 1996. In 2000, Gov. Gray Davis appointed Mr. Moldaw to chair California's World Trade Commission, and two years later to a serve as commissioner on the states Little Hoover Commission. In 2006, Mr. Moldaw captured his personal story in a book titled A Life Story For My Grandchildren. He wrote: ''My greatest happiness came not from money and possessions but from engagements, accomplish ments, challenges, the camaraderie with the people I have met along the way, and the love of my family. I also hope that my grandchildren will come to understand the joy of helping their less fortunate fellows to fulfill their dreams. We can do so much to make the world a better place. The advantage of financial wellbeing can make a person indulgent, rob him of the true measure of meaningful accomplishment and allow him to live a shallow life; or it can give him the ability to make a difference in the world that cries out for compassion, action and commitment.'' Mr. Moldaw's family is planning a private service. A memorial celebration of his life will take place at a later date. The family requests that any memorial gifts be made to The Moldaw-Zaffaroni Boys and Girls Club of East Palo Alto, Eastside College Preparatory School, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and The Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco.
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MOLDAW--Stuart G. March 25, 1927-May 24, 2008, a life-long business entrepreneur, philanthropist and friend to a wide range of civic, charitable and political organizations, died Saturday, May 24, 2008 at age 81. Mr. Moldaw, a loving husband, father and grandfather, is survived by his wife Phyllis, daughters Carol and Susan Moldaw, and four grandchildren. His wife and family were able to be with him during his illness and final hours of life. Mr. Moldaw, a pioneer in the specialty retail and clothing business, founded Ross Dress for Less in 1982 and was a founding investor in The Gymboree Corporation in 1986. Ross Stores is a Fortune 500 company with more than 900 locations, and Gymboree is a leading children's clothing and activity brand with 585 stores in the United States and Canada. Mr. Moldaw served as the Chairman of the Board at Ross Stores for more than a decade, and as Chairman Emeritus, he remained an active board member. He also was Chairman Emeritus of The Gymboree Corporation, and cofounded U.S. Venture Partners, a Menlo Park based venture capital firm.

Mr. Moldaw started his first company, Country Casuals, in 1958 in Palo Alto, California, and went on to develop a successful retail presence based on a passion for customer service, a belief in distinctive marketing and a drive for competitive pricing. He was known for his foresight into customer preferences and for recognizing and fostering the strengths of his business partners and associates. Mr. Moldaw was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and spent his childhood in Brookline. His father was a Russian immigrant who came to the United States amid his homelands civil war. In 1944, Mr. Moldaw enlisted in the U.S. Navy and was called to active duty aboard a troop transport ship, the Ulysses S. Grant. After the war, he attended Syracuse University on the G.I. Bill, graduating in 1949 with a bachelor's degree in Marketing and Economics. While attending Syracuse, he met his future wife, Phyllis Israelson of Portland, Maine. They married in August 1950. Soon after graduating college, he went to work for the Le Bon Marche, a department store in Lowell, Massachusetts, and later G. Fox & Co., a specialty department store in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1955, he moved to California to take a job with Lerner Shops, and he went on to open more than 20 Lerner stores during the late 1950s. Always entrepreneurial, he gave his notice at Lerners in the spring of 1959 and struck out entirely on his own. Beyond his business accomplishments, Mr. Moldaw was a great believer in people and what they could accomplish in life. ''He was an unforgettable man a visionary, entrepreneur, leader and philanthropist,'' said Norman Ferber, chairman of Ross Stores. Mr. Moldaw served on the boards of many San Francisco Bay Area non-profit groups, including the Moldaw-Zaffaroni Boys and Girls Club of East Palo Alto, REDF, Communities in Schools, the Jewish Community Endowment Fund and the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The San Francisco Ballet and KQED, and a leading supporter of 899 Charleston, a seniors living center in Palo Alto. In politics, he was a longtime, active Democrat who was appointed by President Clinton as a Public Delegate to the U.S. Mission at the United Nations in 1993 and as Chairman of the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars in 1996. In 2000, Gov. Gray Davis appointed Mr. Moldaw to chair California's World Trade Commission, and two years later to a serve as commissioner on the states Little Hoover Commission. In 2006, Mr. Moldaw captured his personal story in a book titled A Life Story For My Grandchildren. He wrote: ''My greatest happiness came not from money and possessions but from engagements, accomplish ments, challenges, the camaraderie with the people I have met along the way, and the love of my family. I also hope that my grandchildren will come to understand the joy of helping their less fortunate fellows to fulfill their dreams. We can do so much to make the world a better place. The advantage of financial wellbeing can make a person indulgent, rob him of the true measure of meaningful accomplishment and allow him to live a shallow life; or it can give him the ability to make a difference in the world that cries out for compassion, action and commitment.'' Mr. Moldaw's family is planning a private service. A memorial celebration of his life will take place at a later date. The family requests that any memorial gifts be made to The Moldaw-Zaffaroni Boys and Girls Club of East Palo Alto, Eastside College Preparatory School, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and The Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco.
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New Hampshire Hoedown
BYLINE: By DAVID KIRBY.

David Kirby is writing a book called ''Little Richard: The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll.''

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SING ME BACK HOME

Love, Death, and Country Music.

By Dana Jennings.

257 pp. Faber & Faber. $24.

Boozing and brawling and country music might not be the first things that come to mind when you think of New Hampshire; presidential primary is more like it. But after reading ''Sing Me Back Home,'' you're likely to agree with Dana Jennings, a native of one of the rougher regions of that state, that the feel-bad songs of Hank Williams and George Jones and Loretta Lynn are the soundtrack for the lives we all live.

This means your life, too, my cabernet-sipping friend who just came in from a squash match and is about to cue up a Chopin etude. Of course, Jennings is talking about the country music of roughly 1950 to 1970, not the new ear candy he dismisses as ''country music about country music.'' This book is about Tammy Wynette and Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings, who isn't related to the author, though both know that you need something stronger than cherry cola to ease the pain of a dead-end job, a good-timin' fella or gal is a lot more fun than the stay-at-home model, and a dog doesn't have to have all four legs to love you as if your pajamas were made out of pork chops.

Classic country has one subject: prison. This means prison-prison, yeah, but also the jailhouse of drink, poverty, violence, poor health, faithlessness (''being cheated on is a living death borne in the midst of everyone who knows you,'' Jennings writes). Not doing time at the moment? Country music says you will.

And it has a single lighting scheme: none. A lot of the old songs sound as though they were thought up on ''starless nights on snake-black roads.'' Many are set in or near coal mines. Black jeans and a pearl-buttoned black shirt were the Saturday night get-up of many a rockabilly Rigoletto, which is Tom Waits's phrase for Roy Orbison, before they became the official uniform of Johnny Cash, the Man in Black.

Black looks, black hearts, black circles around your eyes when you've been up all night with a sick child who's not getting better or because you lipped off to some squirt who turned out to be meaner and quicker than you were: black is the color that dominates the country palette. Not to mention the blackness in the eyes themselves: in a photograph of a father he barely recognizes, Jennings sees in his stare ''a country darkness ... that scares the hell out of me.''

Country music reminds us that we're all lonely and we're all scared, and not least of the ''backwoods Grendels,'' as Jennings calls his relations, that we sometimes share a cave with. But -- and this is the larger point -- we're somebody. The best country songs are like the best art of any kind: they tell you you're tough, even though the whole world is against you. Hell, you're tough because the whole world is against you. All that meanness made you what you are, made you into ''Jimmy Brown, the Newsboy,'' the shoeless but proud hero of the 1951 Flatt and Scruggs song who says ''don't look at me and frown'' to the businessmen who buy his papers. He's a polite kid, but something in his voice tells you you'd rather sandpaper a bobcat's butt in a phone booth than go toe to toe with that pint-size entrepreneur.

Every song in the classic country jukebox is there because it tells you you have a place in the world, and if it's not always a comfy spot, still, life's not throwing anything at you that you can't handle. Webb Pierce's hit ''There Stands the Glass'' makes you glad you aren't an alcoholic, because you like the stuff so much you never want to give it up. George Jones's ''He Stopped Loving Her Today'' makes you, too, want to love someone so hard that you won't quit till your breath leaves the circle of your teeth, just as it makes you long for such a love. If you can listen to Merle Haggard singing ''Mama Tried'' and not miss your own mother, it's because she's sitting there with you and probably missing hers. Patsy Cline's ''I Fall to Pieces'' reminds me that I haven't -- yet.

An editor at The New York Times, Jennings is not afraid to let his book larnin' show, but only when it'll further his argument that country music is for everyone, as when he suggests that if Virginia Woolf had grown up with the kind of plumbing he did, her great novel might have been called ''To the Outhouse.'' His book's sappy title is misleading, because the Merle Haggard song it comes from is about the last request of a condemned man who wants the music to take him back to the Eden of his childhood.

Which probably wasn't any more idyllic than Jennings's rough youthful years. But we've all got a date with the hangman, and until then, a bunch of music to be listened to, a heap of dancing to do and a three-legged dog that wants you to scratch his ears. And only you.
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My American Dream: No Gas Pumps
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To the Editor:

Re ''Truth or Consequences'' (column, May 28):

Thomas L. Friedman's fantasy of presidential energy policy truth-telling is a variation of my own pipe dream and about as unlikely to happen.

I envision a future president setting an oil-independence deadline reminiscent of John F. Kennedy's declaration that the United States would land a man on the Moon within 10 years.

This mythical president would declare it against our national economic and security interests to remain on the oil standard, and unpatriotic for manufacturers to continue to produce gas guzzlers. He or she would declare a war on oil by challenging the country to conserve and convert.

Mr. Friedman's ''stick'' method would be a start, but more would be accomplished with generous carrots, like tax incentives for companies such as Tesla Motors and others seriously committed to alternatives to the internal combustion engine. We'd be taking care of a big share of the global warming problem at the same time.

Mary Ann Kae Seattle, May 28, 2008

To the Editor:

Thomas L. Friedman's fantasy is a bit mild for my taste. The better vision is one where the president of the United States acts with true leadership by inspiring the nation to rise to new heights in addressing global warming.

The entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists of this country would be called upon to unleash the creative genius of American ingenuity to develop new products and technologies that we can distribute throughout the world. New industries and markets would flourish, and our debt to China would be exchanged for clean technologies.

We would regain our self-respect and the respect of the world. National pride would be found in our contributions to the welfare of all humankind and in protecting the natural world.

But, hey, it's just a fantasy.

Frank Zika San Luis Obispo, Calif., May 28, 2008

To the Editor:

Why not choose the proven, more efficient way to manage most everything? Let the market decide which vehicles we wish to drive, and how much we are willing to pay for fuel.

I realize that this is counter to the liberal way, but it will work. Try it.

Rick Millman Fort Lauderdale, Fla., May 28, 2008

To the Editor:

Thomas L. Friedman is correct that the rising price of gasoline is having a positive effect -- people are driving less, S.U.V.'s are in less demand, and people are turning from gas guzzlers to more fuel-efficient cars.

But one factor needs mentioning. The high price of hybrid cars is prohibitive. Yes, the value of Mr. Friedman's hybrid goes up and up. But that is the reason many people can't afford one.

To really make a shift in our energy economy, not only must the price of gasoline remain high, but also the price of the hybrid must become affordable.

Let's not forget the effect on working people when both the price of fuel and the price of fuel-efficient cars are high.

Marilyn Simon Boca Raton, Fla., May 28, 2008

To the Editor:

I would argue that our energy policy needs to be even more comprehensive.

Introduce a gas tax? Sure. Include tax breaks for business owners looking to go green? Naturally. Provide tuition breaks for students going into the energy sciences and engineering? Makes sense. Provide incentives for cities to invest in environmentally sound infrastructure? Absolutely. We need a president who thinks systematically.

In St. Louis, millions of taxpayer dollars aren't going to the development of a public transportation system that would curb emissions.

(Affluent suburbanites may recycle their Evian bottles, but they don't want a commuter rail next to their beloved Straub's.)

Instead, the city decided to widen its main highway from six lanes to eight, thereby increasing the number of vehicles on the road by as much as 25 percent.

Alas, if you build it, they will come -- and now at $4 a gallon. Susan Berardi Wildwood, Mo., May 28, 2008

To the Editor:

We won't be hearing our politicians actually telling the truth about an effective energy policy anytime soon because the voting public isn't ready for that truth. With rare exceptions, few public figures are willing to follow Thomas L. Friedman down the road to higher gasoline taxes.

The environmental movement, which has every reason to back such ideas, has all but abandoned energy taxes in favor of the Rube Goldberg alternative of cap and trade.

They would rather deal with the regulatory nightmare of such a plan than risk alienating their donors by promoting the much simpler approach of taxing first gasoline then carbon.

Politicians are public servants, and they won't give us an effective energy policy until we ask for it. But whether we ask for it or not, we will certainly get the energy policy we deserve.

Geoff Berg Warren, R.I., May 28, 2008