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Waitt Co. re-teeing a famous brand in Bobby Jones
Bobby Jones, widely known as a great amateur golfer, lost the U.S. Amateur tournament in 1929 to Omaha amateur Johnny Goodman. Now, more than 80 years later, Jones has a new connection to Omaha: Licenses for sportswear and golf equipment bearing his name...
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Bonefish Grill, P.F. Chang's among businesses coming to Nanuet mall
The cavernous skeleton that is rising at the site of the old Nanuet Mall will house fashion retailers like Michael Kors Handbags Outlet and Banana Republic when it opens as The Shops of Nanuet in the fall. Owners Simon Properties announced the names of...
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BBB shares advice for filling prescriptions online
There are myriad reasons why American consumers are attracted to online pharmacies. Some seek lower prescription prices. Others seek the privacy of not having to deal with a pharmacist or doctor face-to-face. Some may want to avoid the cost of visiting...
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Woodlands trek experienced by touch, smell and hearing
Although a light coat felt good as we started our walk this late spring morning, there was a promise of a warm day. #Entering the woods I felt the gentle brush of a small cedar tree, its dewy branch drying itself on my coat sleeve. The path was soft and...
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Harry Styles and Kimberly Stewart
There’s only One Direction Harry Styles fans will be lobbing their handbags when they read this – because the singer has fallen for blonde model Kimberly Stewart.The pair were introduced by her rock star dad, Rod – and just from her age the Sunday People...
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Andy Pettitte struggles again, Yankees lose to A's
Andy Pettitte’s signature cutter cut out on him last Monday night, just up and left Yankee Stadium during the top of the first inning with no explanation. “I will be completely shocked if it’s not there today,” manager Joe Girardi said Sunday before sending...
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Bags for makeover at BagsCouture Cleaniq
ALMOST everyone would certainly know how to shop for a bag. Ask any one person you encounter in a fashion boutique regarding it, and he or she will be able to rattle off a string of qualities that they look for in bags.In our Michael Kors handbags outlet...
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From Savior to Scourge, Amar’e Stoudemire Still Says His Prayers
When Amar’e Stoudemire took the stage after the screening of his new documentary, In The Moment, last Thursday night at Marquee, he genuinely seemed to appreciate the attention and applause that greeted him from the packed house of athletes, musicians,...
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Bed-Stuy Duo Start Indiegogo Campaign to Bring Tote Bags
Two Bedford-Stuyvesant residents have launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for a community grocery store in their neighborhood. The duo, Dylan Ricards and Sheila Akbar, are but two of the many tattooed, bespectacled and nubby-sweatered Gen Y-ers...
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Statewide proposals to ban single-use bags in 2012
POLICE are hunting an attacker who mugged two elderly women in broad daylight in Poole last week. The two incidents – which are now being linked by police – took place on Thursday and Friday in The Avenue, Branksome Park. Both victims were taken to hospital...
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Five years in, the turnaround ‘is real’ at Hudson’s Bay
It was the business turnaround that couldn’t be done. Retail experts said Hudson’s Bay Co. was too broken to fix. Even U.S. real estate magnate Richard Baker had cold feet just before he snapped up HBC in 2008, saying at the time: “I’m nervous because...
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Female Senators Account for Changing Armed Services Committee
What is the effect of record numbers of women on Capitol Hill? More congressional purses, the New York Times noted this weekend, and more purse boys to carry them! Happily, the Times also reports it means more female representation on powerful, historically...
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Send the pickpockets packing
THE INTERCITY train from Brussels arrived at Antwerp Central station a few minutes late and passengers pushed forward in a mad scramble to get aboard. A well-dressed man elbowed me out of the way, almost knocking an elderly woman in the crush. Seconds...
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Katie Holmes Has Taken Up Baking Pies, Names Blueberry Her Specialty
Naomi Watts is happy to be back in New York after spending time in L.A. recently. “Once you’ve lived in New York, it’s not that easy to get used to L.A. again,” the actress said at the High Line summer party on Tuesday. “You miss that contact with people—you...
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Male Aides Carry Female Politicians' Purses. What Is Happening to This Country?
Writing about women's fashion in politics is a tricky proposition, as the Washington Post learned last week. But Ashley Parker almost pulls it off in her piece for the New York Times fashion pages on the complicated relationship between female politicians...
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Holmes to wear hidden harness anchored to floor
Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes will be restrained during his trial by wearing a harness under his clothes that will be anchored to the floor, the judge said Thursday. Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. also ruled the jury will not be sequestered...
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Hudson's Bay Company names Bonnie Brooks as vice-chair
After five years, Bonnie Brooks is handing over the reins of the Hudson's Bay Co. (TSX:HBC) to become vice-chair at the country's biggest department store. Brooks, who has been the retailer's high-profile president since 2008, will be succeeded by Liz...
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Big Brother Africa: The Cupid Edition
I am sick and tired of having people come to my desk and ask me why this edition of Big Brother Africa (BBA) features a lot of good-looking people. In fact, it is more the guys than the ladies who are happy with the outcome of this year’s auditions. There...
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Fashion eyewear seeing boom in India
The market for branded and premium sunglasses in India is experiencing strong growth. Although local players dominate the domestic market, the industry is changing rapidly, with more and more international brands stepping in to woo Indian customers. Mehak...
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Guerrilla warfare between consumers and retailers triggers feel-bad factor
MAKING ends meet remains the key task facing many Irish households but it seems like a very long time since the main threat to their spending power was coming from spiralling prices. The inflation rate in Ireland and in most western economies is now low,...
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Don’t expect online retailers to completely shed their digital roots
For a growing number of Internet retailers, offline is the new online. Across the country, retailers that existed only in cyberspace are opening — or thinking of opening — traditional stores at a time when e-commerce’s explosive growth has spawned a slew...
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Mayor arrested for drunk driving
Johannesburg - The mayor of Sedibeng Municipality has spent a night in the cells at Vanderbijlpark police station after he was arrested for alleged drunk driving and bumping into another vehicle. Mahole Simon Mofokeng is alleged to have knocked another...
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Retail Therapy May Reduce Loneliness
In some verbal jiu jitsu, a professor of marketing at Tilburg University in the Netherlands says that although loneliness may foster materialism, materialism sometimes alleviates the feeling of loneliness. Shoppers described as "happy hedonists" may become...
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Ways college students can squeeze style
Shopping for items for a teeny-tiny dorm can seem overwhelming, but we’ve made your job a bit easier today.We scoured the market and found some cool, fun and innovative gadgets and decor items that can help save space and enhance the college experience....
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What to Watch This Week
You can never know in advance all the news that will move the market in a given week, but some things you can see coming. From a new movie with soaring expectations to an earnings report whipped up by the country's largest stand-alone smoothie chain,...