TOMS shoes  BLAKE MYCOSKIE: At home, on the boat he bought
before he learned to sail. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles
Times)  The power of shoes. It's something most women and many
men understand completely. And it is what transformed the young,
shaggy-haired, rope-bracelet-wearing entrepreneur Blake Mycoskie
into a visionary business leader hobnobbing with former
President Clinton and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu in
less than three years. The 32-year-old founded Toms Shoes based
on the simple idea that for every pair of his canvas shoes you
buy, a pair is given to a child in need.  To date, he's given
away 140,000 pairs of shoes in the U.S., Argentina, Ethiopia and
South Africa. This year, Mycoskie expects to donate 300,000
pairs of shoes, bring in $13 million in sales and work toward
his goal of eradicating podoconiosis in Ethiopia, a deforming
foot disease caused by walking barefoot in silica-rich soil.  It
doesn't hurt that the Arlington, Texas, native has Clinton-like
charisma, Hollywood good lo