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...Over in Bangkok, Duncan Palmer, general manager of the Sukhothai, is shrugging bespoke-suited shoulders at what would normally be a terrible occupancy rate of 35% and is waiting for September, when, hopefully, "the real pickup" will come. "Thailand hasn't been affected by SARS as much as China, but we're still tarred with the same brush. People in Europe are going, 'Hmm, darling, let's save Bangkok for next year...
...have stared down many a crisis-this summer will be a write-off and SARS is the worst bottom-line bummer they can remember. It's worse, and much longer, than the slumps that followed 9/11, the Bali bombing, the Iraq war and even the Asian currency crisis. "Devastating," Palmer calls it. A last-quarter spike in visitor numbers is more than a prediction these days: it's an article of millennial faith...
DIED. MARK MCCORMACK, 72, father of sports marketing; after a heart attack; in New York City. Before McCormack helped turn Arnold Palmer into golf's first celebrity, athletes could expect only product samples and meager sums for making commercials and public appearances. Today his billion-dollar-a-year company, IMG, with 85 offices in 35 nations, stands alone in managing lucrative athletic careers. He had been called the most powerful man in golf, tennis and sports...
...Palmer Street Coop currently has three ways that it treats used books during buyback season. If the book has been reordered by a professor—as about 1500 (of 5000 total each semester) already have—the Coop will pay 50 percent of the new price, sometimes less if the book is in bad shape. For books that are not yet reordered, but which the Coop speculates will be reordered based on past history, the buyback price is 25-35 percent of new price. The Coop book department usually speculates on 1000 to 1200 books each semester. Correct...
...stage name when a typesetter for Specialty Records accidentally garbled his moniker: King Earl. King's hundreds of songs, which included Mardi Gras staple Big Chief and R.-and-B. hits Trick Bag and Come On (Let the Good Times Roll), were recorded by Jimi Hendrix and Robert Palmer...