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...That competitive attitude will really drive motivation throughout the year.”French and Bucke agreed that it is a very different feeling being part of the varsity squad.“As a sophomore, you’re kind of at the bottom of the food chain ...you’ve got to get your bearings at first,” French said. “Varsity life is different from freshman life both academically and athletically,” he added.“It is a much bigger squad,” Bucke said...
...Cheesy! If you're feeling peckish in Midtown Manhattan you might try wandering into the IMB Building's atrium at East 56th Street and Madison Avenue to nosh on a mozzarella tasting menu. Obika looks like a take-out sushi joint, but it's an Italian restaurant chain focused on cheese, specifically its handmade Mozzarella di Bufala Campana. The porcelain white (the yellow mozzarella in your supermarket was made from cow's milk, not buffalo's), slightly briny balls are paired with grilled vegetables and prosciutto. If you just want a sandwich to go, the menu also includes paninis. Look...
...HITACHI, JAPAN The Mall is Closed For Taira Kamoshida, the founder and the owner of a successful dry-cleaning chain in the small Japanese city of Hitachi (pop. 195,000), the bad news hit like a bolt from the blue. On Sept. 26, Kamoshida was told by his management office that Hitachi's main shopping mall was closing its doors - and one of his dry-cleaning shops located there was instantly out of business. "There was no sign at all of the closing down," says Kamoshida, 63. "On the contrary, my store finally started to break even and was even...
...food joint is trying to woo hungry late-night patrons. B. Good kicked off its 2 a.m.-weekends on Sept. 19, giving Harvard students another place to satisfy their post-partying munchies. Staying open later has been only one of a string of recent promotions for this Boston-based chain. Over the past month, B. Good has given away free shakes, free burgers, and hosted a “garlicky greens” spinach-eating contest...
...they will have to contract in the future." Last week, U-Right, a clothing retailer with about 100 outlets in Hong Kong and another 500 in China, was forced to liquidate after it could not meet bank demands to repay its debts. By Sunday, some of the chain's Hong Kong stores, already picked over by bargain hunters, were shuttered...