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...initiative when I see one. The Philip Morris Co. has been engaging in similar efforts for the past year or so. The tobacco and so-much-more company has new ads proclaiming its support of the "We Card" program to prevent children from buying cigarettes. In the ad, a bunch of kids dressed for a prom attempt to buy smokes from a kindly yet firm store owner, who tells us that belonging to the We Card program makes it easier for him to turn down the kids. There is a lacuna in logic here, but the point, apparently, is that...
...Quincy House, I saw a bunch of them in the trash can by the elevator," Shumsky says. "[Door-dropping] doesn't mean that a roommate isn't going to get there first and throw everything in the door basket away...
...vague cultural phenomenon snapped into sharp focus for me recently at a restaurant opening in Manhattan. The revelers at Dylan were mostly twentysomethings and soooo trendy. They looked like a bunch of Gap models with cell phones pressed to their beautiful little ears. More on point, virtually all of them were chastened day traders. A young partner in the restaurant venture confided that the volatile NASDAQ had all but ruined him, prompting him to--oh no!--start a career...
...lobby, it's part of what gives the Claridge the je ne sais quoi that manager Michael Wathen calls "a point of view." The point, he says, is to take a load off, take the edge off business and feel at home among friends--as opposed to jostling a bunch of other suits in a convention center-size lobby littered with bad art. Says Wathen: "We're the anti-Hyatt...
...Right. It's hard to resurrect things after anticompetitive practices. But our remedies will keep the door open for other cross-platform products in the future. That's critical, because a whole bunch of new technologies could develop soon if Microsoft's anticompetitive tactics don't strangle them...