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Eliminating risk ended up creating huge risk for everyone.
Philip J. Smith and Robert E. Wankel were named Tuesday night to share what is perhaps the most powerful position in the theatrical world.
A college student writes about her relationship with her "benefactor," an older gentleman who provides for her every expense.
If they had a revamped team in place, the Mets could almost start playing at Citi Field today. Almost.
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) has resoundingly defeated Dem Jim Martin in the Georgia Senate runoff, winning a second term. See also: Franken's claim
Nearly 200 hours of White House tape recordings and 90,000 pages of documents are coming out Tuesday, adding to an already imposing selection of long-secret Nixon material now in public hands.
Marks & Spencer is to repeat its 20%-off pre-Christmas sale tomorrow as high street stores continue to struggle to pull in shoppers.The M&S discount day comes just a fortnight after M&S slashed pre-Christmas prices for the first time in four years in a bid to tempt shoppers and shift unsold stock. It is expected to apply to the same goods as before, including some alcohol.With Christmas looming, retailers are becoming increasingly panicky that they are going to fall well short of sales targets and be left with mountains of stock that will have to be marked down in the January sales. In stores ranging from electricals to fashion and furnishings they report that goods are only shifting when shoppers are offered big discounts. Similarly, the supermarkets are engaged in a fierce price war on everything from flat-screen televisions to fish fingers.The swift repeat of the M&S sale day suggests that high street stores have seen little impact in their tills of this week's 2.5 percentage point cut in VAT. The tax cut, designed to encourage spending, was announced by the chancellor in last week's pre-budget report and took effect on Monday, although many stores brought the cut forward by a few days.M&S's sale will run in the middle of another three-day Debenhams sale. Today, Thursday and Friday the Debenhams chain is offering up to 20% off across the store and its action will force at least one other retailer, John Lewis, to offer reductions.The John Lewis chain's "Never Knowingly Undersold" price promise means it always matches the lowest prices available on the high street for branded goods. It normally makes these reductions in a low-profile way, but last week, when it slashed prices to match those on offer at House of Fraser, it highlighted its response to the "competitor's event" on its website. A spokeswoman said the group had decided it had to "shout louder" about its price matching.John Lewis sales, which are regarded as a bellwether for the retail sector and for the state of consumer confidence in middle England, have been suffering for many weeks, but in November they lurched downwards. For the last three weeks they have been more than 13% below last year's levels and the most recent detailed figures show every store is having problems. Five stores, including Cribbs Causeway in Bristol and one in Nottingham, were down by more than 20%.Debenhams, which regularly holds pre-Christmas sales, was the first major retailer to announce its price cutting campaign this year. Yesterday it claimed it had "sparked one of the biggest price wars ever seen on the high street". The store chain said that shopper numbers increased by two-thirds during its last sale days.However, independent research group SPSL, which counts the number of shoppers on the high street, suggested the sales of a fortnight ago had not had anything like that impact. It calculated a 4% boost to shopper numbers that week. Another research group suggested the sales were not whetting shoppers' appetite for spending and were merely pulling forward sales which would have been made anyway. Just a few days after the last M&S sale, shopper numbers were 8% down on 2007 levels."We are back by popular demand," said deputy chief executive of Debenhams Michael Sharp. "It is as simple as that. What is more, we are not forcing people to shop on just one day, unlike some stores."Sharp has been among the gloomiest retailers about the prospects for this Christmas season. He recently said that the retail sector is "staring into the face of the worst Christmas we have ever had".Marks & SpencerDebenhamsJohn LewisRetail industryguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
The police have been cracking down on fare evasion on buses. But drivers say they are in a difficult spot when riders do not pay.
There aren't as many nursery rhymes in the nursery anymore.
A new domain name, .tel, becomes available Wednesday, and it could become a phone book for the Internet.
A California company is preparing (again) to release the first rechargeable silver-zinc battery for mass-market laptops. Is it safer and greener than its lithium-ion counterpart?.
The UN body investigating the killing of Lebanese ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri says fresh evidence could help identify new suspects.
U.S. Supreme Court: State Medical Marijuana Laws Not Preempted by Federal LawMedical marijuana case appealed by the City of Garden Grove was denied review today. "It's now settled that state law enforcement officers cannot arrest medical marijuana patients or seize their medicine simply because they prefer the contrary federal law,"
"In that two-hour span, I was able to hit up seven Taco Bell locations, netting 28 tacos in the process. And I was also able to learn several things."
Beautiful and creative paper art creations from all over the world.
An experimental drug that mimics the effects of the hormone melatonin can reset the body's circadian rhythms, bringing relief to jet-lagged travelers and night-shift workers, researchers reported Monday.
Since Apple confirmed that no new products would be shipping before the holiday season, nearly everything can be rumored in regards to Macworld 2009. An anonymous tip MacBlogz received back on November 3rd claimed to know information regarding a 32GB iPhone. ?That rumored red iPhone? It?s not happening. The only iPhone news I know for certain is th
The late 1980s was a golden age for the PC adventure game, with franchises such as Kings Quest filling floppies everywhere. One of the era's most memorable titles was 1989's Prince of Persia, a Jordan Mechner-designed side-scroller that proved influential for its smooth animation and realistic depiction of human movement. In the years since, Princ
Gates declared he has no intention of being 'caretaker secretary" in Obama's administration.
Bubbling cauldrons, toxic substances, insane and dangerous ideas -- whatever happened to that kind of science? Take a look at Mark Roth in his lab in Seattle. It's mad. It's heroic. It's science the way it's supposed to be.
From Paulson to Obama, D.C. is all about bailouts.
A vast reservoir of comets that is too far away to see might be detectable in maps of radiation left over from the big bang, a new study suggests.
You think the economy is bad? Consider this: The nation's economic funk is now affecting K Street.