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Undergraduates call it "dropping the H-bomb" when they reveal to a new acquaintance that they go to Harvard. That's because the Ivy League university's name invariably elicits a response to what administrators there call "the best brand in higher education." This month, however, the Harvard brand is taking heavy fire, thanks to the man who is supposed to be its most vigilant guardian, university president Larry Summers...
...BRAND X PICTURES/GETTY. MANIPULATION BY GARETH BURGESS console the 1,750 passengers who had paid up to $79,000 to flee the British winter. But some memories of the fiasco might be blunted by P&O's provision of free drinks while it tried to make the 76,000-ton luxury liner seaworthy. The drinks tally for the truncated trip came to 12,800 beers, 12,600 bottles of wine and 9,800 cocktails...
...players in the market are adding travel bags and ergonomic mats to their roster of products. Tumi, a leading luggage and business-case brand, just introduced a line of yoga bags, seen here, with special features to facilitate traveling with yoga gear. "We wanted to address women's growing interest in yoga and its role in a healthy lifestyle," says Alan Krantzler, Tumi's vice president of product management. The company's new Signature collection features an antibacterial-coated mat, with moisture-proof pouches for damp towels and clothing, and several outside pockets for water bottles, cell phones and other...
...visiting my girlfriend for the holidays, so the preacher didn’t know me well enough to get me in on the action. As a Jew from the Southwest, this brand of Southern Christianity was new to me. But sitting in the pews and watching Brashear do his thing, I wanted to be a part of this congregation. I wanted to be prodded and made fun of and forced to participate. I wanted to be such an important part of the community that the pastor needed my “amen...
...those things you wish you hadn’t said,” Franklin told The Crimson Wednesday night—not because she regrets the sentiment, but because she appeared to have coined a brand new word...