Summit meetings are called to generate outcomes, often of dubious value, and income for the host city. Paris, as luxurious an ambiance as can be found anywhere has just hosted such a meeting in which it was decided that blue fin tuna were in fine health, though visibly...

The merchandise is now on J.C. Penney floors. The "disaster" I refer to in the headline is a one-word, personal description of the women's wear product. I visited the flagship store in the mall in mid-town Manhattan yesterday and was shocked at the tackiness, drabness, cheapness and unLizness of the...

''J.C. PENNEY UNVEILS EXCLUSIVE LIZ CLAIBORNE LINE'' - Headline in Women's Wear Daily, July 22, 2010

"With high expectations for market share and margin growth, J.C. Penney unveiled its exclusive Liz Claiborne collection on Wednesday. It's an expanded version of its Liz & Co. line, which has been discontinued, but...

Rocky Barker, journalist for the Idaho Statesman, their man on the ground who covered conservation of natural resources and the dramas that played out as contending stakeholders, at times unruly and violent, fought the issues out, in court and often in person, was one of the attendees at the Red...

It was of little concern to the aging Nunamiut Eskimo hunter and the research biologist the day they met in 1976 that events in the outer world were troublesome: Watergate, Vietnam, the emergence of the new lioness, Margaret Thatcher: all nothing to the hunter and the wolf. Caribou were their...

A soft early morning. We luxuriate in the dawn of the African plainsland. We are at Kichwa Tembo - Head of the Elephant in Swahili - a safari camp whose tents are strewn at the foot of the escarpment of the Maasai Mara in Kenya. The Mara is the river...

The "Year of the Tiger," the lunar Chinese New Year, was celebrated on February 14. Once every twelve years, tigers are honored for their transcendent beauty and for the physical and psychic prowess their parts are believed to offer humans.

There are perhaps 17,000 tigers on this earth. Between...

"Money For Nothing," by John Gillespie and David Zweig, subtitle: "How the Failure of Corporate Boards is Ruining American Business and Costing Us Trillions," inspired this piece.

I've long considered the slow death of the company that Liz and I founded, a story that should be told, but how to...

"Liz Claiborne has been a great pathfinder." So wrote Gene Landrum, PhD., in his book "Profiles of Female Genius." He goes on to acclaim her "pioneering spirit. The chapter heading for Liz is "Persevering Pioneer."

It is in the definitions of pioneer--"one of a body of foot soldiers who...

"Liz Claiborne is one of the all-time greats, not just in the apparel industry but in the history of the stock market." So spoke Brenda Gall, senior industry specialist at Merrill Lynch.

Ms. Gall was acclaiming a woman who had been trained as an apparel designer. But Ms. Gall...

On a late afternoon in 1987, Liz stood before the shareholders of her company, Liz Claiborne, Inc. She was 57 years old. The company, founded 10 years before, had achieved success by dressing working women in snappy sportswear at the right price, and now stood at the pinnacle of American...

Liz Claiborne, my wife of fifty years, died of peritoneal cancer on June 27, 2007. Every tool in the oncologists' toolbox had been mobilized to cure her, to ease the pain of chemotherapy and to mitigate the humiliation of bodily deterioration. When the tool box was empty, despite her courage,...