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...weeks it appeared that Libeskind had the upper hand, until a last-minute push for Vinoly/THINK by LMDC heavyweight Roland Betts, a New York City developer and former Yale roommate of George W. Bush's. After a four-hour meeting last Tuesday in which both proposals were examined over sandwiches, the LMDC's site committee, which Betts heads, voted 43, with one abstention, in favor of Vinoly. But the next day their recommendation was overruled by Pataki and Bloomberg, who had long favored Libeskind's plan. Betts says that's fine. "Nobody was Vinoly or bust," he insists...
...their Web stores and include their merchandise in a searchable database--then takes a 3.5% cut of every sale. Few small merchants have the budgets to pay for display ads and top placement in search returns. And that's what it takes to get noticed next to several dozen heavyweight "featured stores" (Nordstrom, Godiva, Gap et al.) that are paying the bigger bucks for even greater visibility. So while the large Web retailers are cutting six-, seven- and even eight-figure deals with portals, they are effectively pushing the small players to the sidelines. "It used to be that...
More recently, in the CRASH-B sprints, sophomore heavyweight Aaron Holzapfel, a devout Christian, jokingly rowed under the name Kevin McHale of the “Live For Jesus Always” Club...
Game Face Mike Tyson showed up at a prefight press conference with a tattoo on his battered mug, a Maori-inspired abstraction that nearly encircles his left eye. "I didn't like the way my face was looking," Tyson said by way of explanation. Whatever. He may not be heavyweight champ anymore, but he could still put the hurt on anybody who makes fun of his new look. Which is why we would never, ever do that...
When a group of 15 executives from multinational mining companies met with Wen Jiabao, China's Premier-designate, in late 2001, they hoped to be getting face time with a kindred spirit. The execs, among them heavyweight representatives of giant mine operators such as Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, wanted to discuss the opening of China's mineral-extraction market to foreign investment. Wen, a geologist by training, was in a position to make a difference as the country's Vice Premier. As everybody sipped green tea in a meeting room at Zhongnanhai, the Beijing leadership compound, Wen listened politely...