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ESSAY: Bruce McCall on why you can't always trust what is written on the label...
...simple trick of calling one thing something else is suddenly enriching the few, bamboozling the many and threatening the Western world's belief in the sanctity of the label. At a Times Square movie palace last week, patrons who shelled out $10 each to see a new Tom Cruise movie, only to get David Hasselhoff as the star instead, angrily rushed the box office to demand full refunds. The studio admitted saving millions with the celluloid bait-and-switch but denied shortchanging customers. "Hey, guy," noted a senior executive, "Tom and Dave are both adult male Americans with all their...
...holiday firms must be wondering when they'll get their break. Hallyday In The Sun It's his biggest hit ever: Johnny Hallyday, France's most popular rock star, last week secured ownership of his personal catalog of some 3,500 songs spanning 43 years from his longtime record label, Universal Music. A Paris court sided with the 61-year-old rocker's claims that the company cheated him by offering a series of favorable loans, and then held debts over his head as a bargaining tool. Hallyday could receive 350 million in damages, though Universal is appealing...
...moved beyond many old stereotypical rivalries. My experiences had previously led me to believe that, deep down, Harvard students and students from the other schools had realized that we’re all pretty similar. It really makes no sense for us not to get along and to label each other as if we’re really all that different. Is it logical for one middle-class, private-school-educated, suburban, Philadelphia rower to hate another simply because one goes to a school in Cambridge and one goes to a school in Philadelphia? No. But people have a nasty...
LETTERS MILESTONES YOUR TIME: Health ESSAY: Bruce McCall on trusting what's written on the label...