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...store sale, Coach and Louis Vuitton, makers of luxury handbags, are in a tussle--over Japanese shoppers. In early March, Coach complained to the Japanese Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) that LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton was, among other things, strong-arming department stores, threatening to pull the Louis Vuitton brand if Coach opened or expanded within shops where Vuitton already sells...
...Little did I realize just how thoroughly life would, in fact, change for us lifelong Red Sox fans. We were newly fashionable, for one thing-people wrote books about us, people made movies about us, people wanted to talk to us. We had lots and lots of brand new friends. I learned, not long after Doug Mientkiewicz caught the toss from Keith Foulke to finish off the Cards-a ball that Doug would spend much of the off-season trying to keep as his own, a ball now in the possession of the Red Sox (and Doug is, via trade...
...Morgan Stanley, split from J.P. Morgan's financial empire by regulators in 1935, has rarely seen such turmoil. For now, the brand remains strong. Stock and bond trading have been minting gold, and the firm has advised on seven of the 10 biggest takeovers in the world this year. But the increasingly bitter spat between Purcell, a master survivor, and eight former Morgan bankers led by another ex-president, Robert Scott, threatens all that...
...that continually advances, and in fact limit it: it’s been proven time and again that what’s familiar sells almost as well as sex. That’s the flaw of your Jack Johnsons and John Meyers: companies are willing to invest in this brand of songwriter because they do little to rock the boat. How much risk do you think there is in a good looking musician who plays uptempo, heart-on-sleeve acoustic-guitar rock? But do we need more of this. Major labels, alongside television tie-ins and corporate-owned radio...
...rooms of the society are said to contain a bloodcurdling set of torture instruments, much like that of a Spanish Inquisition chamber. The initiations are reported to be spectacular in the extreme, one ordeal through which the candidates are put being a brand on the left hip with the initials ‘M.F.’” The headquarters of the society were rumored to be in basement quarters along Mass...