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...their offices on the second floor of the Barker Center. He does not bid them “Good morning,” nor does he offer so much as a wave. He just sits there, day after day, wearing the same black suit and the same intense, intellectual look on his face...
Since then, Albertson's and other big chains have publicly vowed to follow suit. Safeway, for instance, has gone dead net with a few vendors but admits that the evolution is slow because it takes so long to sift through years' worth of byzantine allowances in order to compute--and compare--dead net. "It's a little bit like translating some ancient scrolls that you might find in the Dead Sea that are in a language that you don't know," Burd told analysts. It's an honest--and stunning--admission that Safeway doesn't know what its true costs...
...capacity for the concert, and all along this tour the duo has played to sellout audiences. In the hours before the show Barlow milled about the club, signing posters and having a few drinks. He strikes an imposing image: clad in a suit-jacket, tall, with Elvis Costello glasses, the presence of the elder statesman of indie rock that he is. But the minute he stepped on stage, with the simple phrase “Welcome back,” he became the rock avatar of years past, shedding his suit coat for a conservative gray T-shirt with...
...modern sensibility was also brought home with a kiss between models Nathalie Miller ’04 and Andrea H. Li ’04 a la Madonna and Britney Spears, which sent men and women alike to their feet and cameras flashing. Student dance company Expressions followed suit with a contemporary choreographed performance set to NERD’s fused rock-hop, featuring women in black cocktail dresses alongside men in suspenders and newsboy hats...
...kill us, Agatston has ironically got people to stop being on diets and just start eating healthy. Now he is planning to write a book about heart-disease prevention--the book he really wanted to write in the first place. "The idea was not to fit into a bathing suit in a few weeks but to prevent heart disease," he says. "But people don't care when they die as long as they look good when they do." Finally a doctor has learned how to be patronizing in a useful way. --By Joel Stein