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...eating clubs furnish a resource for students every weekend, but Princeton students aren't always appreciative of that outlet. "At Harvard, you have Boston, and you don't have to stay on campus. But here, if you don't go to eating clubs, there is nowhere else," complains Mario A. Moya '01. "Drinking beer is the only option...
...eating clubs furnish a resource for students every weekend, but Princeton students aren't always appreciative of that outlet. "At Harvard, you have Boston, and you don't have to stay on campus. But here, if you don't go to eating clubs, there is nowhere else," complains Mario A. Moya '01. "Drinking beer is the only option...
...year he is even marketing extreme sportswear to the Gen X and Gen Y crowd, and older folk who want to feel that young. The Lauren reach includes 26 licensees who sell $4 billion in everything from tableware to towels (Polo/RL gets a cut), plus 224 retail stores and outlet centers...
...fantasy and finery on Chicago's Michigan Avenue--are money pits. Lauren says the analysts miss the point: the flagships succeed as marketing beacons. Nevertheless, sacrifices had to be made to the Street. Last month Polo/RL announced a restructuring, laying off 5% of the work force and shutting nine outlet stores. Is that enough of a (suede calfskin) belt tightening to get costs back in line with competitors Hilfiger and Nautica? "Even with the restructuring, you are still looking at a number of years before you get even closer to where their competitors are," complains analyst Christine Kilton-Augustine...
Last Friday a crowd estimated at 15,000 gathered around Tran's store, Hi Tek, an electronics-cum-video-rental outlet in a cramped minimall in Little Saigon--the unofficial name of Westminster, which lies about an hour south of Los Angeles. The demonstrators unfurled signs declaring, OUR WOUNDS WILL NEVER HEAL! BE AWARE! COMMUNISTS ARE INVADING AMERICA. They are not angry about some controversial video (the rental shelves carry nothing questionable; the most popular tape, Tran says, is a martial-arts epic in which a student of Buddha's sends a monkey angel from heaven to fight evil...