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...managing director for Strategic Resources Group and a veteran Walmart watcher. "Same with Rite Aid. They've knocked out four of the top five toy retailers, and are now going after the last one standing, Toys "R" Us. Project Impact will be the catalyst to wipe out a second round of national and regional retailers." (See 10 things to buy during the recession...
...Kheireddine said that he had heard rumors about a calendar change from Harvard employees who frequent the store but did not realize that the majority of students would be back before Labor Day. “We want students to come, we wish they were here year-round,” Kheireddine said. The temporary shortage of cheap alcohol did not go unnoticed by Harvard students. One Quadling even offered to buy liquor off of others over a House e-mail list. (The transaction was later declared successful.) Billy P. Hennrikus ’11, an Adams House resident, recalled...
Whatever its origin, the Labor Day rule has perennially met with resistance from high-fashion quarters. As far back as the 1920s, Coco Chanel made white a year-round staple. "It was a permanent part of her wardrobe," says Bronwyn Cosgrave, author of The Complete History of Costume & Fashion: From Ancient Egypt to the Present Day. The trend is embraced with equal vigor by today's fashion élites, Cosgrave notes - from Marion Cotillard accepting her 2008 Academy Award in a mermaid-inspired cream dress to Michelle Obama dancing the inaugural balls away in a snowy floor-length gown. Fashion...
...whether he wins in the first round or is forced into a runoff with Abdullah, Karzai will almost certainly stay in power. That means Washington must continue to deal with him. (See pictures from a battle in Afghanistan's Kunar province...
...likelihood, the next round of nuclear diplomacy with North Korea has begun: the U.S. and its negotiating partners had patiently waited for the North to come out of its self-imposed isolation - it had said it would never return to the six-party talks and then earlier this year tested, sequentially, a second nuclear bomb and a long-range missile, both in express defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions. The revelation that the North has a uranium-enrichment program (in addition to a plutonium program, which has been the focus of most of the diplomatic effort in recent years...