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Nine minutes later, an unsuccessful Big Red attempt to clear the defensive zone kicked off a stick and over to Welch, who gloved the puck and raced in alone on McKee. After one deke, Welch attempted to tuck his shot inside the right post, only to rebuffed...
...that those customers want to reach Sears. For even if Sears and Kmart can assemble a compelling assortment of exclusive product lines to sell, they are still, in a sense, "going to have to transcend their own [weak store] brands," says Kevin Keller, professor of marketing at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business...
...always hidden gems out there that a more astute and observant reader would have spotted. But that isn't the judges' fault. The only motive that one can reasonably impute to them is a desire to call attention to the eventual winner, The News from Paraguay, by Lily Tuck (HarperCollins; 248 pages). Though why to that particular book, it's a little hard...
Franco is not an implausible dictator, but he is exceptionally repugnant, and Tuck never makes clear what greater truth his repugnance conveys. As a result, The News from Paraguay remains a beautifully written but curiously cold and creepy novel. One wishes that it had not won the NBA, not because it has nothing to offer readers but because the award makes one expect something from it that it does not have: greatness. --By Lev Grossman
...develop a new generation of product. When competitors like Guidant and Boston Scientific came out with their own stents, customers were eager to abandon J&J (which has admitted being slow to innovate but denies that its pricing was at fault). Says Sydney Finkelstein, a professor at Dartmouth's Tuck business school and author of Why Smart Executives Fail: "They knew what was going on; their customers were telling them." Like so many other companies that end up stumbling, they just weren't listening. --With reporting by William Han and Sean Gregory/New York, Sally B. Donnelly/Washington and Joseph R. Szczesny/Detroit