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...profitable one of late, at least for well-established musicians. The Eagles and AC/DC released their most recent original albums exclusively through Wal-Mart, and in January, Bruce Springsteen gave the chain an exclusive greatest-hits set. Each benefited from massive in-store promotion and stop-the-cart placement - AC/DC's Black Ice sold 1.92 million copies to rank as the fifth best-selling album of 2008. Paul McCartney also saw some of the best sales of his solo career when he struck a less exclusive deal with Starbucks and its record arm, Hear Music. (See the best and worst...
...Instead, Harvard’s policy, implemented in the spring of 2007, accommodates students’ needs after their placement in a house. Students can always approach their House masters about specific rooming issues, but McIntosh serves as an added supportive resource...
...recessions. Every restaurant contacted reported dining rooms booked solid with celebrating couples ordering as if the housing crisis had never happened. And managers and owners said diners did not scale back, ordering prix fixe menus as well as tipping generously. Valentine’s Day’s weekend placement may also have contributed to the crowds, as Saturday nights tend to be busy for restaurants. While business on the lover’s holiday seems not to have slumped, the local restaurant industry hasn’t dodged the effects of a declining economy, as diners have cut back...
...national economy continues to nose-dive, a growing number of public schools have found themselves facing similar situations - and making more and more painful cutbacks. Advanced Placement programs, extra help for English learners, art, music and summer school could be on the chopping block in many places. Ditto for efforts to reduce class size. (See pictures of a diverse group of American teens...
...crowd of bundled-up onlookers from another. So I left our comfortable plot and headed toward the portables. We ended up five feet from the portables, but there was no way we were getting to them. Elevated flower beds, chain-rope fences denoting what-were-usually-walkways, and the placement of the facilites in question, had transformed the field into a corral. People were crammed against the sides of the bathrooms, some scrambling to escape the crush by climbing on top (to greater or lesser success), but most were pushing back against the incoming waves of would...