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...gave House masters, who might have grown accustomed to a certain guard, the option of retaining a familiar face. According to University officials, only two houses--Lowell and Adams--opted to keep the old guards in the gray shirts. At Lowell, an old Harvard guard now wears an SSI uniform, and last week longtime Adams guard Dan Gibbons retired and will be replaced by an SSI guard...
Beside the sofa road-test issue, there are plenty of other reasons why this $40 billion industry might find e-commerce a risky road to take. Online furniture stores face costly returns, deliveries that can't be left to Federal Express and skeptical manufacturers. None of that is news to Andrew Brooks, CEO of Furniture.com Nevertheless, he thinks he can convert customers by making online sofa shopping much better than the showroom variety. Brooks is hoping to win consumers with features such as a program that allows them to click and drag pictures of furniture into a room...
Gore operatives argue, rightly, that it is far better to face the Bradley Moment in late September than in late January. Sources tell TIME they are moving onto a war footing. Last week the campaign stepped up its plan for "engaging" Bradley, distributing talking points to Gore troops in New England. Gore officials say Bradley is already offering a variety of targets, including an embrace of gay rights that could backfire on that community, his vote for a school-voucher experiment and what they say is his mixed record on campaign-finance reform. More jabs are sure to come...
When Lou Gerstner, IBM's iron-willed CEO, makes a decision, he usually sticks by it. So how was it that 10 days ago he made an abrupt about-face, scaling back a change to the company's retirement plan that was supposed to save $200 million annually? And did Gerstner realize he was feeding a nationwide workplace riot among baby boomers, who are convinced their nest eggs are being plundered...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataBellSouth has the cash to outbid almost anyone, but that $7-a-share premium is for a deal that could face serious problems going through. "This is a Baby Bell trying to get into long distance, and BellSouth alone has already been rejected [as a potential long-distance carrier] by the FCC three times," says Greenfeld. "Until AT&T can make a real business out of offering local service over their phone lines, the FCC is likely to make any BellSouth wait ?- and that doesn?t even include state-by-state approval by state regulators...