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...more for optimists. On May 27, WSL Strategic Retail, a highly respected consulting firm, released its latest "How America Shops" survey. The company found that in 19 of the 32 spending categories it tracks, fewer consumers are cutting purchases now than they were a year ago. For example, last year 58% of the survey's respondents said they were cutting back on purchases of frozen food. Now only 34% said they were spending less on those items. Last year, 41% of consumers said they were cutting back on cereal. That figure has now dipped to 26%. (See pictures...
...shoppers WSL surveyed said they were "tired of watching every little penny and are ready to break out a little." The top categories they desire: a vacation, a night out and clothes for spring and summer. Remember all that cocooning everyone talked about a few months ago? Perhaps people are getting bored indoors. "Consumers are exhausted, and they need a little break," says Liebmann. "They are starting to come out of their little burrows, saying, 'Please, please, can I have a night...
...other debut film, the gypsy-curse shocker Drag Me to Hell, looks to come in an O.K. third, with $16.6 million. Like Up, it's a film with no stars, but a star director of sorts: Sam Raimi, who did the Spider-Man movies and, ages ago, the Evil Dead cult trilogy. Credit Drag Me to Hell's success to a generous PG-13 rating and to the loyalty of genre fans who haven't been able to go to a new horror film in, gee, almost two months. (See TIME's video "Making Drag Me to Hell More Hellish...
...lone defeat of the year by besting the Tigers and Yale the following week to take home the Ancient Eight crown, and qualifying for the NCAA Regional Championships on the campus of The Ohio State University in the process. There, Harvard would match its finish from a year ago, placing 19th out of a field of 21, a few key rounds away from mixing it up with some of the nation’s top collegiate programs from the Midwest and West Coast. “Our scoring average per round has been getting lower ever since I came...
...Crimson (10-3-5, 5-1-1 Ivy) equaled its win total from a year ago while taking the league title, as well as nabbing its first NCAA tournament berth since 2004. It was another huge step in second-year coach Ray Leone’s development of the program, which had last won the Ancient Eight crown...