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With non-league foes like New Hampshire and Villanova on Saturday’s schedule, this would be the perfect weekend for the Ivy League to make its case...
...editions and start-ups should offer foreign investors a chance to get in on the action. After all, the Indian newspapers need capital to pay for expensive marketing campaigns to muscle into new cities. Western newspapers, while facing an uncertain future, have deep pockets. It should be a perfect match. Yet only a handful of big deals have been inked. For example, Britain's Financial Times has taken a stake in the Business Standard, an Indian business newspaper, and Henderson Global Investments, a British firm, has invested in HT Media. "It's worked out very well for us," says...
...being bandied about, it's clear that Washington is making this up as it goes along. "It's going to cost whatever it costs," is how the President put it last week. Given the battering his reputation has taken in the past few weeks, that open-ended approach makes perfect sense. After all, no matter what it ends up costing, the White House has learned that the price of inaction is much, much higher. --Reported by Mike Allen, Perry Bacon Jr., Brian Bennett, Timothy J. Burger, Massimo Calabresi and Matthew Cooper/ Washington, Michael Peltier/ New Orleans and Cathy Booth Thomas/Baton...
When Lacoste brought the shirts to the U.S. in the 1950s, they were a huge hit--the perfect preppie fashion statement--and their popularity lasted through the 1960s. But General Mills (as in cereals, not woolens) acquired the brand in 1969 during one of corporate America's periodically insane conglomerate phases and decided to combine Lacoste with another brand, Izod. The company got lucky, riding the preppie fashion wave in the 1980s. Then, desperate for sales growth, Big G cheapened the shirt, reduced the price to $35, and sold it everywhere, even to low-end stores like Wal-Mart. "They...
...switch to CG. And Keane, when he sat down at a computer, was soon aware of its downside. "It tempts you with the easy choices. It says, 'You designed half that face. Push this button, we'll duplicate it, and the job's done. You've got symmetry--perfect!' But the key to beauty is strangeness, asymmetry...