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Farther down Mass. Ave., Billy Bartley, manager of the iconic Bartley’s Burger Cottage and a Red Sox fan for 47 years, also noted a slight increase in customers, but did not attribute better business to the Sox’s recent victories. Rather, Bartley believed his store attracts a certain kind of customer...
...consensus on important decisions. Hu is no exception and had to make compromises. He failed, for example, to name Li Keqiang, his favored candidate, as sole successor. Indeed, Li trailed Xi onto the podium Monday, confirming a belief among analysts that, for the moment at least, Xi has a slight edge in the race to lead China. (If previous practice is followed and no unforeseen events intervene, Xi will succeed Hu at the 18th Party Congress in 2012, while Li will take over as Premier.) Hu also lost the services of the formidable Vice Premier Wu Yi, who fronts China...
Last year Rolls-Royce sold 805 Phantoms, its main model, a slight increase over the 796 sold the year before. Revenues were also up - the company won't say by how much - largely because of the newly introduced, extended-wheelbase Phantom that has a base price of $403,000, or $63,000 more than the standard version. Garel Rhys, emeritus professor of automotive economics at Cardiff Business School, applauds the company's performance since its acquisition by BMW: "You couldn't expect much better." And the company's future looks shinier than a well-buffed fender. In July, it rolled...
...music swells, the stage is empty. Then, through a door on the right, a slight blonde woman strides into view. The crowd rises in thunderous applause. From my perch in the Dress Circle of Carnegie Hall, I can see J.K. Rowling...
...with Denver's snippy media, which have long branded the team's primary owners--brothers Dick and Charlie Monfort, of Monfort Beef fame--as dunces. The Rockies were born in 1993 after 30 years of snubs from baseball's pooh-bahs, who were concerned about the metro region's slight population, lousy stadium, capricious weather and high altitude. When baseball finally caved, its reward came swiftly: the Rockies' opening day drew 80,227 to old Mile High Stadium--still the largest single-game turnout in baseball history--and first-year attendance totaled 4.5 million. These were happy days, particularly when...