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...Consumer Reports' list of the worst used cars. And in J.D. Power's influential study of long-term vehicle dependability, which measures problems encountered by owners of three-year-old cars, Mercedes scored far below the industry average in the 2005 survey; Mercedes owners reported more than twice as many problems per 100 cars as top-ranked Lexus. "Mercedes' fall from grace has been especially severe," says Chance Parker, J.D. Power's executive director of product and research analysis...
Pernod plans to hold its No. 1 spot in Europe and Asia by "adapting to lifestyle and consumer behavior in every market"--getting customers to pay up for premium brands. In China, Pernod just repositioned Chivas Regal with an 18-year-old edition--at twice the price of the 12-year-old--boosting sales 17% over the past six months. In the U.S., where tequila is the fastest-growing premium category, the company will launch Tzon (named for the stone that pounds the agave plant in production) at $60 a bottle in January. Its wine portfolio, including Jacob...
Practice the exercise at least twice a day and whenever you feel stressed, anxious or off center. After a month, if you are comfortable with it, increase to eight breaths each time...
...When they met, Claudel was 17, the daughter of a provincial French bureaucrat so dedicated to his gifted children that he moved the family to Paris to further their education. (It paid off twice. Camille's younger brother would grow up to be the famous poet, diplomat and archconservative Catholic Paul Claudel.) Rodin was 41, on the brink of fame after decades of frustration. He was also a dedicated satyr. The dancer Isadora Duncan, whom he would meet some years later, once said that whenever they were together she felt like "a nymph in front of a centaur." Though Rodin...
...composer is Kalhor, who will be collaborating with the Ensemble to create a work entitled “Silent City.” Kelly says he looks forward both to the fact that the piece will incorporate non-Western modes, and that the group will appear before the class twice as often as the performing groups usually do during the semester. “This year, I think, will be particularly exciting,” says Kelly...