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There is a critical moment during online shoppers' visits to an e-merchant: the point at which they have identified the product they want to buy but haven't completed the transaction. Some stay. Some bolt. A little hand holding can help reduce the chance of a cut-and-run considerably. First tip: Post a toll-free number, and staff the phones. Ken Seiff, CEO of Bluefly.com which sells discount designer apparel (big holiday seller: $79 pashmina scarves), attributes his company's favorable traffic-to-sales ratio to having enough live customer-service reps (70 during the busiest December weeks...
Prasse-Freeman also cooled off, turning the ball over six times in the second half with only one assist. Drew Gellert and Brady Merchant, the Crimson's other two guards, also were unable to provide any offensive spark...
...commentary on our society when TIME's choice for Person of the Year is an e-mail book merchant." RAYMOND E. RICHMOND Alexandria...
...Most of all, Schama's book is a meditative, entranced attempt to get behind the faces we see in Rembrandt's self-portraits. Schama reads Rembrandt's self-portraits in various costumes-as a merchant, as a soldier, for example-as indications of his elusiveness, as if each portrait were meant to conceal rather than reveal its subject. In analysis of one self-portrait, Schama writes that the painter "has disappeared inside his persona," inscrutable beyond the dead dark eyes of the painting. The artist's disguise hides his true self, and the critic is left to speculate. It seems...
...Crimson had fared much better versus Sacred Heart, against which it scored its highest point-total of the year. In the romp, Winter (23 points), Coleman (20 points), Merchant (9 points) and freshman center Onnie Mayshak (7 points) all either tied or topped previous career highs in scoring. In addition, Prasse-Freeman (14 assists) and Gellert (10 rebounds) also set personal bests...