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...knock off luxury service. It's about human beings and experience. That's not something you can duplicate." Ford agrees. "There's no Chinese company right now that can go toe-to-toe with Marriott," he says, or other big chains such as Hyatt, Hilton and Westin. "They just don't have the brand name or international drawing power...
...just had to put it on,” explains Jessie E.A. Washington ’09, the other co-producer. Parks’s works are difficult to perform by any standards. They are “multi-layered, historically aware, and linguistically complicated,” writes Hilton Als in a recent profile of Parks in The New Yorker. “It took a good deal of time and effort to develop the right dynamic and tone for the show,” writes Renee M. Ragin ’10, who plays one of Hester?...
...them just begs for awkward worship from awkward fans. Doll-faced half-Japanese poster-girl singer? Check, and she goes by the name of “Lovefoxxx.” Debut on indie-darling label Sub Pop? Claro que sim. Lyrics with tongue-in-cheek references to Paris Hilton and Death from Above? Obvi. Friends with Diplo, the Svengali behind M.I.A.? That, too. Considering how tired of being sexy they are, it’s somehow fitting that the video for “Alala” is a bloody gore-fest. It takes a bellicose group...
...feud between Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie is over. They were spotted in Hollywood having dinner at Dan Tana's Steakhouse. I believe Paris had the steak, and Nicole had the parsley." JAY LENO...
Successful garage-makeover businesses are also revving up growth through franchising. In 1999, Mark Loberg started PremierGarage, a company in Phoenix, Ariz., that remodels garages using goods he manufacturers and distributes. Loberg was a local entity until 2003, when he opened his first franchise in Hilton Head, S.C. Sniffing a market, entrepreneurs around the U.S. and Canada bought the franchises, paying $35,000 to more than $125,000, depending on the market size. Adding more franchises--now totaling 81 in the U.S. and Canada--helped PremierGarage's revenues soar to $16.2 million in 2005; the firm currently employs 82 people...