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...cheerful, modern, orange-and-red Teremok restaurants or 70 Teremok kiosks in St. Petersburg and Moscow--which provide an equally cheerful customer experience--teenagers in red uniforms greet customers with a smile. Then, according to highly specific instructions laid out in the company handbook, they take, prepare and deliver orders. But in a twist on the concept that the customer is king, the wait staff's salutation is sudar or sudarynia, archaic Russian terms for "master" and "mistress." Teremok's fare consists not of American-style burgers but of Russian-style blini, the traditional thin pancakes, delivered with chain-restaurant...
With $80,000 in capital ($30,000 of his own and $50,000 from two former business colleagues), he opened his first kiosk in April 1999, on Moscow's Leningradsky Prospekt. By 2001, he had 15 kiosks in Moscow and 12 in St. Petersburg. "From the beginning, I was going to build a really good company, not just two or three restaurants for me," Goncharov says...
Radcliffe Executive Dean Louise M. Richardson was named the next leader of the University of St. Andrews, the Radcliffe Institute announced yesterday. Richardson, a leading scholar on terrorism and political violence, will be the first woman to serve as principal and vice chancellor—the Scottish equivalent of American universities’ president—at St. Andrews, one of seven “ancient universities” starting January 2009. Richardson’s selection as principal is pathbreaking because she is not a Scot, she is not from within St. Andrews, and she is not male...
...Then, in the kind of unapologetic, in-your-face move for which Obama's campaign has become known, the presumptive nominee deplaned and made his way to the St. Paul Xcel Center, the hockey arena in which Republicans plan to bestow their nomination on John McCain during the party's national convention in early September. Before 17,000 screaming people, Obama paid rhetorical respect to McCain's military past - then pointedly criticized him for allegedly turning away from his reputation as a maverick and becoming a shill for the Bush Administration...
...St. Paul, Obama declared that the 2008 campaign had changed McCain, who he said "can legitimately tout moments of independence from his party in the past," but has not made "such independence the hallmark of his presidential campaign." In both speeches, the candidates agreed that the voters' hunger for change in Washington and across the country will define the terms of the November election...