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...Harvard's game to lose. The Big Green defense made the Crimson earn its two goals. The three Dartmouth goals, on the other hand, owed more to Harvard mistakes than anything else. These mistakes are what killed Harvard's hopes of defending its ECAC title...
Finished video in hand, Aigner-Clark set out to find a store that would sell it, which is where her success story really begins. She spent two full days at a toy trade show looking for someone from the Right Start, a retail and catalog company that sells developmentally appropriate toys and products for infants and toddlers. "I literally hunted down the sales representatives," she says. It took several follow-up phone calls and letters, but eventually the Right Start agreed to sell the video. When it hit the shelves in 1997, it quickly became one of the company...
Assembling a sexy portfolio of products, though, is only half the brand battle. Manufacturers still have to rely on retailers, which have gained the upper hand in the past few years as they've consolidated. "There's been a clear shift in loyalty from the manufacturer to the retailer," says Burt Flickinger III, managing director of Reach Marketing. Giants like Wal-Mart, Target and Kroger now largely dictate the terms. At the same time, they've devoted more resources to popular in-house store brands, which now account for 20% of sales. Wal-Mart chairman David Glass, a national brand...
...discuss the interplay between the environment and the culture of the folks who put down roots there. The Dubois area was once the largest railroad-tie-producing region in the U.S., and Burch Center director Sharon Kahin will take visitors to camps once inhabited by Bunyanesque Scandinavian immigrants who hand-hewed ties with razor-sharp precision. The area is also the home of the Mountain Shoshoni, and archaeologist Larry Loendorf will lead hikes to the wooden structures they built to trap the bighorn sheep that were the staple of their diet, and to the site of giant petroglyphs used...
Hence the critic's dance: parry censors with one hand; hold your nose with the other. And it's not limited to TV. Look at the art world, where aesthetes regularly defend the rights of heavy-handed art--Sensation, Santa on a cross--that would be lucky to grace the editorial page of a second-rate alternative newsrag...