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...weak finish to a season of mixed team-racing results. After opening the season with a 5-9 finish for sixth place in the Bob Bavier Team Race Invitational, Harvard sacrificed its finish in the Ferraro Trophy regatta to secure a spot in next year’s sloops championships. But the real test came at the Fowle Trophy, the New England team race championships, in which the Crimson finished third behind the Big Green and Yale...
...Green Warriors Our Milestone on the death of Bob Hunter, co-founder of Greenpeace [May 16], noted that he coined the term Rainbow Warriors to describe the group's more militant members. In an Aug. 1, 1983, story, we reported on a foray they staged...
...Myron (Mike) Ullman wants you to think so. He has introduced new lines from Nicole Miller and Chris Madden to the mid-tier department-store, Internet and mail-order business while streamlining sales and launching a new "emotive advertising" campaign. "Mike's a marketing wizard," says analyst Bob Buchanan of A.G. Edwards & Sons. "He tells the customer that just because she doesn't make 100 grand a year doesn't mean she can't look good." Penney's earnings quadrupled in the first quarter over last year, to $172 million. Ullman's clearly doing something right...
Starbucks isn't the only nonmusic company to think CDs will boost the bottom line. Victoria's Secret, which started the trend with a line of classical CDs back in 1988, recently sold a Bob Dylan compilation in its lingerie shops. Target is selling an exclusive EP from singer Rob Thomas, and Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores are serving up a special disc from country stars Alison Krauss and Union Station. Pottery Barn has put out more than 70 different titles, with music touted among its top-grossing product categories. The Gap, Restoration Hardware, Lane Bryant and Eddie Bauer have...
...UC’s Campus Life Committee (CLC), also sitting on a fatter wallet, was decreasingly effective in planning meaningful social events for the college community. The year started off well, with the CLC landing Bob Dylan for a fall concert. But last winter’s Jim Breuer comedy show and this semester’s Springfest event were underwhelming and underattended. While we continue to support the basic mission of the CLC to plan campus-wide social events, we implore the CLC to put its collective ear to the ground to try to figure out what kinds...