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...buzz is being generated by muscle cars or luxury of the "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" variety. Crowds also gathered around cars made by a company largely unknown outside of China, the Shenzhen-based firm BYD (Build Your Dreams). Started as a rechargeable-battery maker, BYD is making a headlong push to become a world leader in what some analysts believe could be the industry's post-internal combustion engine future: electric cars. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...former employees and customers- they come back years later and they ask: ‘Do you remember me?’ and I do. I remember their faces,” he says...
With all due respect, I spent 40 years interacting with these so-called students—an aspect of the university I have never understood. Now, in my golden years, I ask nothing more than to relax without the incessant chatter of young ’uns, brimming with energy for no explicable reason. They will arrive, seeking pleasure on a Saturday night, and might even take sherry to the point of wooziness: for shame! They will then slur their speech and stumble about in an unrefined manner. An utter disgrace to this university! These troublemakers remain out until...
Paper Chase. Marriott will no longer automatically deliver USA Today or the Wall Street Journal to your door. But if you still want to savor the smell of newsprint, you can ask for the papers at check-in (or set your preferences online, if you're a Marriott rewards member). By doing away with the automatic paper delivery, the hotel expects to save on 18 million papers a year...
Love may mean never having to say you're sorry to those you hold dear, but it turns out apologizing is a pretty good way of cheesing off your enemies. Just ask French Socialist politician Ségolène Royal, who's infuriating foes on the right and left alike by making apologies for President Nicolas Sarkozy, the man who beat her out for the Elysée two years...