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MILAN — Exertions will bring you places. Giorgio Armani definitely embodies this idea, still spearheading his namesake fashion group at age 88 as chairman, chief executive officer and inventive director, and he expressed it in his speech on Thursday, receiving an honorary doctorate in global business management from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore within the storied Nineteenth-century city theater of Piacenza, Italy. The degree, said Armani onstage, has a worth that's “twice as special” since it rewards not only his creativity but his role as an entrepreneur, his “commitment and fervour that through the years allowed to rework a dream right into a solid group, a logo of Made in Italy.” He admitted it was also special since it was bestowed in...