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...holiday shoppers get ready for the first post-Sept. 11 Christmas, they will soon be noticing that the traditional red-and-green Christmas cards are sharing the stores with a slew of new ones sporting patriotic red, white and blue. Hallmark, which had only a few days after Sept. 11 to turn out a new patriotic line, reports that those cards are the best-selling ones on its website. And despite fears that anthrax would dissuade people from spreading cheer through the mail this year, Hallmark says its card sales are up 5% from the same period last year...
...cried more and hated Harvard more and more every second. And then came the conclusion. He had to take a year off...for the second time. It is funny that this school which claims to be so moral will give a student only one chance to make a slew of Ds, but you get two chances to violate other members of your community. The Ad Board decided to reward how forthcoming he was. For some reason, what he did to me didn’t matter anymore. What mattered was how pathetic his statement was and how eloquent...
...considering bringing back the concept of William Webster's top management triumvirate - instead of one deputy as chief operating officer, he may name three people to roughly equal number-two slots. The idea is that a single deputy burns out too fast; Louis Freeh went through a slew of them. Also, Webster liked the triumvirate idea because it kept one person from having too much power...
...help make its argument, BMS added a slew of new lobbyists to its force, including GOP insider Haley Barbour. Longtime lobbying powerhouse Tommy Boggs took Bristol-Myers' CEO for sit-downs with lawmakers like John Dingell, the top- ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. And BMS made headway in arguing that a measure to fix the loophole it was trying to create should not be part of the bill - or at least that BMS should be exempted. But when lawmakers figured out that dozens of other drugs could make the same argument as BMS, including products like...
...Garbage, saw the Madison, Wis.-based band rise quickly amidst the then-decaying alt-rock universe. Fueled by producer/drummer/founder Butch Vig, a veteran of the alternative scene from work with Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins, the band showed considerable maturity and greater refinement in 2.0 while still breaking out a slew of radio-friendly singles, among them “Special” and “I Think I’m Paranoid...