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...survey, released this month by the Luxury Institute, found more than half of wealthy consumers with annual incomes exceeding $150,000 believe there are too many luxury brands, and 44% think many luxury brands have become commodities...
...Crimson end and tossed a soft lob over the head of the MIT goalkeeper and into the net. Just over 30 seconds later, he struck again, taking a feed from Balaraman and burying it in the back of the goal, giving Harvard a 4-1 lead. The first half was closely contested, with Harvard going into halftime leading only by one goal at 5-4. At halftime, however, the Crimson looked to build on its advantage. “[We] made an adjustment and [the Engineers] were less effective,” Farrar said. “We traded goals...
...morning-zoo show on an FM Top 40 station. But these aren't cheerful times. For conservatives, these are times of economic uncertainty and political weakness, and Beck has emerged as a virtuoso on the strings of their discontent. Rush Limbaugh, with his supreme self-confidence, holding forth with "half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair," found his place as the triumphant champion of the Age of Reagan. Macho Sean Hannity captured the cocky vibe of the early Bush years, dunking the feckless liberal Alan Colmes for nightly swirlies on the Fox News Channel. Both...
...Palestinian people. The authorities are certainly worried about an uncontrollable crowd of seething young students. They have reasons to be fearful. The government shut down campuses early because of the presidential election, but students nevertheless led the mass protests that followed the announcement of the results. Roughly half of Tehran's students are from out of town, and these students were sent packing in mid-June. They are now streaming back to start the new school year, swelling the size of the student population to levels not seen since the election. The government is already hinting that it may shut...
...than 20% of Japan's yearly dolphin quota. Iwate prefecture catches the most of any area, bringing in a total of 11,070 dolphins in 2006 and 10,218 in 2007. But even those figures are well below the prefecture's legal limits, and Taiji fishermen also hunted about half their limit in 2006 and 2007, averaging about 1,430 dolphins a year. In response to The Cove, town-council chief Katsutoshi Mihara told the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, "I don't understand their way of pushing their own values...