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...Harvard men’s soccer team capped off its opening weekend emphatically yesterday, shutting out Boston College, 2-0, on the Eagles’ home turf in Newton, Mass. The non-conference win over the Atlantic Coast Conference’s Boston College (1-2-0) was the first for Harvard (2-0-0) since 2000. “We played really well,” Crimson co-captain Akpan said. “It was a tough road game against an ACC team and I think our team had a solid overall performance.” The Crimson...
...first records in 1936, backing blues singer-pianist Georgia White as she belted out Andy Razaf's raunchy threat, "If I can't sell it, I'll keep sittin' on it, before I give it away." A year later, he formed his first trio, with bass player Ernie Newton and rhythm guitarist Jim Atkins (the elder half brother of Chet Atkins, with whom Paul cut the 1995 album Chester and Lester). They went east, and the Les Paul Trio got a New York City club date. More than 70 years later, another Paul trio was playing weekly gigs at Iridium...
Because the Continental starts at $177,600, the decision by Rolls-Royce to price the Ghost at $245,000 was a "quite deliberate" maneuver to create a niche market just above Bentley's more affordable model, says Paul Newton, an automotive analyst for the consulting firm IHS Global Insight. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
That it's not a fully bespoke limo may turn off some customers, Newton says. "There is a risk of losing that exclusivity," he says. Perhaps. But some 1,200 potential buyers have already expressed "strong interest" in the Ghost, according to the company. About 85% of those people would be first-time customers, which indicates that the company is indeed mining new territory, since typically 37% of Rolls-Royce buyers already own one of the cars - or more...
...With reporting by Jay Newton-Small / Washington...