Word: decentered
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...boost the bottom line down the road. "It's a slippery slope," says David Carter, executive director of the Sports Business Institute at the University of Southern California. "If the consumer lowers the threshold, it's harder to get back to the true market price. It's a decent short-term strategy that can wreak havoc in the long term." International Speedway, for one, insists the deals will stick around for some time. "We're doing a price-resetting," says chief marketing officer Daryl Wolfe. "We're not talking about a quick-and-dirty discount...
...that long ago, you'd have had a hard time finding a research institute, an academic department or even a decent conference exploring the link between spirituality and health. And with good reason. Health is science, spirituality is something else entirely, and people who say otherwise clearly need to sit down with a medical journal...
...really glad they’re accommodating vegans,” said Amary K. Wiggin ’09, a vegan who voted in favor of a coconut lentil soup. Wiggin said that the current vegan offerings in the dining hall are “decent.” According to Steinman, the competition was intended to “highlight to people that a diet with relatively less meat is a diet that’s easier on the planet.” —Staff writer Lingbo Li can be reached at lingboli@fas.harvard.edu...
...Alex Barnett, frontrunner for Ivy Player of the Year, showed up strong, scorching Penn for 24 points. It will be interesting to see how the Quakers respond. They have talent—freshman Zach Rosen played tremendously against the Crimson and sophomores Jack Eggleston and Tyler Bernardini provide a decent one-two punch.And don’t forget one thing—this will be played at the Palestra, which still packs a wallop in the Ivy League. Columbia won both its games last weekend in front of a raucous crowd of its own, and they may struggle in this...
...substantial slice of its running time as a romantic dramedy. After fathering a daughter with his high school girlfriend, Wallace had a lengthy relationship with fiery rapper Lil’ Kim (Naturi Naughton) and subsequently married agreeable R&B singer Faith Evans (Antonique Smith). Both actresses do a decent job of playing archetypal strong women, but the characters never evolve. Same goes for Tupac Shakur (Anthony Mackie) as a jive-talking cipher and Sean Combs (Derek Luke), who isn’t puffy so much as a plain, humorless sidekick. George Tillman, Jr. directs “Notorious?...