Word: highlander
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Faith Liddell, 44, director, Festivals Edinburgh I'd start my day with a hearty Scottish breakfast in the brasserie of the Scotsman hotel, tel: (44-131) 556 5565. Then I'd walk down the Royal Mile and climb Arthur's Seat, a little bit of highland landscape right in the center of the city. Afterward, I'd head to the National Museum of Scotland, tel: (44-131) 225 7534, not forgetting the museum's Tower Restaurant, tel: (44-131) 225 3003, where both the food and the views are fabulous. Next stop would be the Scottish National Gallery of Modern...
Analysts caution that the winners on Black Friday will not necessarily be the champions on Dec. 31. Tom Stemberg, former CEO and founder of Staples, and now managing partner of the Highland Consumer Fund, sees no correlation between Black Friday sales and a retailer's ultimate success or failure over the holiday season. "Black Friday sales are about as meaningful as Groundhog Day is to the weather forecast," says Stemberg. "What happens is every retailer blows his brains out with these door-crasher deals trying to generate traffic...
Richard Wagner, HIGHLAND...
...yield hundreds of shockingly vivid vignettes from the beaches and trenches. You won't soon forget the account of Bill Millin, bagpiper for the 1st Special Service Brigade of the British Army, who had to march out of the surf onto Sword Beach under rifle and mortar fire playing "Highland Laddie." And Beevor focuses on things other writers have neglected. For example, he doesn't gloss over the hideous costs paid by French civilians. The Allies, before liberating them, bombed them relentlessly in an attempt to paralyze the German army. Three thousand French civilians died during the first 24 hours...
...plunk down billions of dollars on deals in recent weeks is a sign that senior executives believe the economy has bottomed and that buying now is better than buying later. "It's clearly a sign of renewed optimism" in the market and sector, says Peter Bell, general partner at Highland Capital Partners, a venture-capital firm in Boston...