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This, however, was a different Crimson team. It was a year older than the one which fell in double-overtime at Jadwin Gym on Feb. 7, 2004. Last season, the Wallace trifecta would have triggered a chain of events that would have given Princeton a shot...
...full-fledged pillow fight is under way in the hotel industry, with one chain after another firing shots to claim the title for the industry's most comfortable bed. The latest challenger: Marriott International, which announced last month that it was spending $190 million to replace 628,000 beds in 2,400 hotels with plusher mattresses and 300-thread-count sheets. "It's the biggest makeover in the history of the industry," says J.W. Marriott Jr., chairman and CEO, who (with his sons, below) donned flannel jammies for the announcement. The mattress war began five years ago, when Westin launched...
...show. It was among the most anticipated events on the week's calendar, not just because of Lacroix's reputation as one of fashion's most intriguing talents but also because talk of the LVMH-Falic deal had been circulating since early January. The Falics, who own a chain of airport duty-free shops, have no previous experience running a fashion house. The looming question: Would they allow Lacroix to continue his haute-couture line which, like most others, is a perennial money loser? Or was their aim to milk Lacroix's name to cash in on his ready...
...Minnesota Pharmacists Association is trying to head off a bill limiting sales of pseudoephedrine to adults over the age of 18. The legislation, says the group's CEO, Julie Johnson, would require more than 300 products containing pseudoephedrine to be kept behind counters. The National Association of Chain Drug Stores warns that customers would have fewer choices of brands and longer waits in line, while big retailers would have to contend with a patchwork of confusing state laws. That is already true: at least 11 states have enacted some restraints. Meanwhile, some retailers are voluntarily restricting sales. Wal-Mart...
...exchange of fluids," say the authors. There were 63 couples who had no outside partners, but an astonishing 288 students were linked together in an elaborate network of liaisons. Many students had just one or two romances, but they were at risk of contracting STDs from everyone in the chain. This, wrote the authors, is "the worst-case scenario for potential disease diffusion...