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Regardless of theme, tradeshows have a culture all their own, and I received several important lessons regarding show procedure in short order. The first, and by far the most important, lesson: gather as many free mugs, bags, t-shirts, thermoses, Tupperware sets and pens, and enter as many raffles for free gear as is humanly possible. It is near impossible to leave such an event without at least one bag with a giant vendor logo filled to the brim with such items, which one can then distribute to friends and family as birthday and holiday gifts. If your significant other...
...Steffi Graf. But now, with two bold, stylish women--Serena and Venus Williams--ruling the game, the fashion industry is playing mixed doubles with the world of tennis. At the spring 2004 menswear shows in Milan last week, Gucci designer Tom Ford introduced a chic take on the tennis bag in crocodile and a Stan Smith-style sneaker with croc trim. At the menswear shows in Paris, meanwhile, Louis Vuitton featured tennis whites as a major theme. Over at Wimbledon, where tennis was actually being played, Venus Williams was serving up her new look on Centre Court: a Diane...
...photograph depicts a bag of soda cans hanging next to a custodian’s trash can, which she had planned to use for her own profit. Another shows an empty basement of the Harvard Business School that is lit very brightly in order to keep workers awake, according to Halpern...
...WILL TENET BE LEFT HOLDING THE BAG? CIA Director George Tenet is faring a bit better. The House committee's top Democrat, Jane Harman, noted last week that "caveats and qualifiers" Tenet raised in prewar intelligence about Iraq's weapons were "rarely included" in Administration arguments for war. After the awkward Q&A in Doha, Bush put Tenet in charge of the WMD hunt. Tenet in turn hired a former U.N. weapons inspector, David Kay, to run the search, but Tenet and Kay have a lot of ground to make up fast. Tenet, sources say, recently conceded to the House...
...took a little while for Philadelphia to accept a man who walks around in buckle shoes, white stockings, a frilly white shirt and a red vest, with a gold pocket watch and a postal bag adorned with a perfectly forged Franklin signature--just one of eight complete outfits--but it did. "My first day here, a bag lady looked at me and said, 'Weirdo,'" Archbold says over breakfast at the Cosi sandwich shop after talking to one of the many homeless people who know him. "You have hit a new level of weirdo when a bag lady is calling...