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...Superette, the renowned convenience store near Mather House that he owned for 18 years. Chen’s return comes after a month-long legal battle with the current manager of the store, Pritam “Tony” S. Saini, whom Chen alleged had failed to pay rent and hadn’t met Chen’s standards for running the store. “I would love to bring the store back to the way it was,” said Chen. “I’d like to go back to being...
...harder" was the corporate motto, an adroit marketing hook so successful it became part of pop culture. The company, Avis Rent A Car, was founded in 1946 by Warren Avis with two employees and fewer than 200 cars. Its first two locations were airports in Miami and Ypsilanti, Mich. A decorated WW II pilot, Avis said his entrepreneurial idea was inspired by his flying experience and the growing need for ground transportation at airports...
Will Ferrell's THE LANDLORD--a 2-min. tiff with a potty-mouthed, not potty-trained rent collector--notched nearly 15 million downloads at funnyordie.com...
Broadway is getting shrewder about courting all kids, but particularly girls. Stars from American Idol have turned up in Broadway musicals--Frenchie Davis in Rent, Diana DeGarmo in Hairspray and Fantasia Barrino in The Color Purple (since she joined the cast, the show has set a house attendance record). Disney--which introduced a new family audience to the theater with shows like The Lion King--will soon bring The Little Mermaid to the stage. And coming next season to London: a musical version of Desperately Seeking Susan, the 1985 movie about a housewife who's sucked into the punk underworld...
...irony is that Harvard already has “further information about candidates’ socioeconomic backgrounds.” Financial aid applicants submit information on whether their family receives food stamps and welfare checks, how much their parents earn each month, and how much their families spend on rent, electricity, and healthcare. Until admissions decisions, all of this information sits unused in the financial aid files—just steps from the room where reviewers decide applicants’ fates...