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...change, from five-story rectangular buildings, reduces the square footage of the center by more than ten thousand feet and the height by 12 feet...
...very obvious that the building wasn't facing us. It was facing the river," says Paul Berkeley, the president of the Allston Civic Association. "And the height of the building was very objectionable...
That's because Estee Lauder Inc., which controls some 50% of the $7 billion prestige beauty market and owns top brands such as Clinique, Origins and M.A.C., refuses to sell to independent sites. At the height of the e-tail start-up boom last fall, such niggling details didn't matter. Like most other e-commerce ventures, the beauty sites were thinking only about getting big, fast. Sooner or later, they thought, the big brands like Lauder, Lancome and Chanel would come on board. "The start-ups' lack of knowledge was painful," says Allan Mottus, an analyst who consulted...
...force and were more organized. It was almost like they were being schooled." They also began to use Gravano's name to intimidate other dealers and took to carrying guns. Almost overnight, police say, the gang became the top supplier of ecstasy in Arizona. At its height, police estimate, the ring was selling as many as 10,000 pills a week and raking in almost $1 million a month...
Under the heading "Crimes and Punishments (Primitive and Savage)," the Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics lists possible methods of execution: "Decapitation, strangulation, hanging, stabbing or spearing, cudgelling or flagellation, impalement, crucifixion, drowning, burning, flaying alive, burying alive, throwing from a height, stoning, sending the criminal to sea in a leaky canoe, cutting in two, lopping off the limbs. ... In certain regions where cannibalism prevails, criminals are killed and eaten." One method calls for crocodiles...