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Unlike other new-entrant designers such as Lancair and Diamond Aircraft--which sell similar high-performance, artfully designed planes--Cirrus has set its sights on the granddaddy of airplane builders, the venerable 76-year-old Cessna Aircraft Co. of Wichita, Kans. The Textron subsidiary has sold more than 23,000 of its Skylane 182s, and the distinctive, high-wing, small-propeller planes are so ubiquitous that there probably isn't a pilot who hasn't flown a Cessna at least once...
...place more News directors on the 15-person BSkyB board, which already boasts chairman Rupert, son James and three other News Corp. executives. A starker question is whether James, the youngest of Murdoch's four adult children, is really the right man for the job. He was a reluctant entrant into the family empire, having started his own independent hip-hop label after dropping out of Harvard. He had a hand in one of Murdoch's early Internet ventures, Delphi, which was a costly disaster. He then took over the entire new-media sector for News Corp., which lost hundreds...
...issue of TIME Inside Business featured a cover story on captive marketing--the insinuation of ads into formerly private domains, like taxis, elevators and even rest rooms. The latest entrant in the captive game: choo-choos for the Wayne Newton crowd. The $650 million Las Vegas Monorail, scheduled to open early next year, will run along the east side of the fabled Strip, carrying gamblers between casinos like the MGM Grand and Harrah's. Several companies will sponsor multicar trains, blanketing each car with logos and promotions. Hansen's Beverage has signed a 10-year, $10 million deal to sponsor...
...Yard-wide pool tournament, Tai e-mailed Wigg residents a statistical analysis of the number of entrants per dorm, his calculated multiplication bonus per entrant for each dorm and the resulting “effective number” of entrants. “You need to have some sense of the numbers—the implications of some dorms’ [size] advantages over others. It’s important to realize the importance of multiplication bonuses,” he says. He is quick to emphasize, however, that “quality, not quantity?...
...Brown duo took out sophomore Jason Beren and junior Jordan Bohnen in the round of 16 and Turner and junior Chris Chiou in the quarterfinals before stunning the top-seeded Lingman/Riddell partnership, 8-4, in the semifinals. Earlier, Turner and Chiou had upset the fifth-seeded entrant from Rutgers...