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...Millionaire Fair late last month, even the glare off the hood of a $250,000 Wiesmann MF4 supercar could not blind a visitor to the fact that there was far less interest on both sides of the cash register. A glitzy show designed to part Russia's well-to-do from their cash, the fair is usually spread out through three halls in Moscow's Crocus Expo center - this year it took up only two. With fewer vendors and wider aisles between the stands, the small number of visitors seemed even more sparse. "There are much fewer people this year...
...dominated by macho swagger, his limited emotional palette worked wonders. Here, he’s a singer-songwriter, and he’s lost his acute powers of observation and his humor. The aesthetic shift belies his “Graduation” claim that “The hood love to listen to Jeezy and Weezy / And oh yeah, Yeezy.” Nonetheless, both Young Jeezy and Lil’ Wayne make cameos. Kanye invited them to a pity party, but they must not have caught that first word: a medicore Jeezy verse overpowers the plodding...
...Resizing the business will alter the number of nameplates that the Detroit Three market and the number of dealers that sell them. GM will sell or close Saturn. Pontiac and Saab could end up joining Oldsmobile and Plymouth in the hood-ornament graveyard because the cost of supporting a brand with a small market share doesn't make sense, nor does maintaining a dealership network created for an era when Chevy and Buick could support separate distribution systems. GM plans to reduce its dealer count 27%, to 4,700. "Certainly, having seven or eight brands for 25% of the market...
...their department store. The employees marched six miles, from Harlem to Herald's Square, dressed as clowns, knights and cowboys. Marching bands and animals from the Central Park Zoo accompanied the parade's first floats: The Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe, Miss Muffet and Red Riding Hood. The event attracted a quarter of a million people and was deemed a roaring success. Macy's decided to make it an annual event...
...were turned away at polling sites. (Many were mistakenly pegged as convicted felons, who at that time were ineligible to vote in Florida even after serving their sentences; Crist has since made it easier to restore felons' voting rights.) Controversy arose again in 2004, when secretary of state Glenda Hood tried to purge 47,000 names from voter rolls - because the database, again mistakenly, told her that many people were ineligible - before county supervisors intervened...