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...ubiquity happened suddenly and without apparent reason. Historically, the pinkish gold has played second fiddle to more popular classic yellow and white golds. But when the world's finest watchmakers unveiled their new collections earlier this year, it became evident that it was time for a color change. Breitling, Zenith, Cartier and Patek Philippe have all introduced chic new timepieces in the rosy hue, usually paired with chocolate-brown dials, which add a masculine tone to the more feminine shade...
...Ronald Reagan famously told religious conservatives, "You can't endorse me, but I can endorse you." Republicans relentlessly charged Democrats with waging a war on faith (or Christmas or the Bible). And the party built an extensive infrastructure to reach and mobilize religious voters, a strategy that reached its zenith...
...Theatre. However, the company’s fortunes faded quickly with the graduation of its founders. Speedie admitted to poorly planning for the future of the company before he graduated, which may have led to the current problems of the company. “The company was at its zenith [when I left], but I did a miserable job in succession planning,” he says.Under its current leadership, however, Hyperion is getting a second chance in a most un-Shakespearean turn of events. Fredricks and Moross are hoping that their upcoming production of “Romeo...
...higher seed in the past five NCAA Tournaments. So I settled down on press row to see how entertaining a conference tournament is.The answer: very entertaining. The Tournament brought out the best in the teams and programs. Aside from the possible NCAA or NIT bid, the Tournament represents the zenith for the eight teams that played Saturday: BU, Vermont, UNH, Albany, Maine, Hartford, Maryland-Baltimore County, and Binghamton. The first game of the day, between top-seeded Vermont and Hartford, quickly showed how much the tournament meant to each team. The Catamounts jumped out to a twenty-point lead late...
DIED. Robert Adler, 93, physicist for Zenith who, with colleague Eugene Polley, invented the first commercially successful wireless TV remote control, sparking the couch-potato revolution; in Boise, Idaho. The tiny, elegant Zenith Space Command, which raised the price of TVs soon after it hit the market in 1956, was a vast improvement on its predecessors--one of which involved a long cord. In 1997 the gadget whose marketers once boasted, "Nothing between you and the TV but space!" won Adler and Polley an Emmy...