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Abercrombie & Fitch sells sex. Harley-Davidson sells rebellion. Chipotle sells idealism.
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Rod Stewart has lost track of the women he’s slept with, but he can recall every car he’s ever owned.
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Pickup trucks lined a stretch of gravel road where 150 farmers mingled between 7-foot tall cornstalks and shimmering soybeans to see which of their wealthy brethren would bid on a swath of Iowa’s richest cropland. This was a farm -- table-flat and 314 acres -- so coveted that it drew three times the usual land-sale crowd.
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The Scissor Sisters are back. They are pouring themselves into Lycra costumes, jiving like there’s no tomorrow and disco has never been away.
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Hal David, the lyricist who collaborated with composer Burt Bacharach on “What the World Needs Now Is Love,” “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” and dozens of other pop-music hits, has died, the Associated Press said. He was 91.
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Richard “Kinky” Friedman , the country singer and detective novelist who has twice run for Texas governor, says he’s through with politics.
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On a sunny, wind-swept December morning, Virgin America kicked off a day of festivities along the otherwise unfestive runways of Dallas Fort Worth Airport. Four longhorn cattle lolled in a pen while dignitaries such as Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert lunched on pulled pork and ribs, and lasso artists twirled rope. The main attraction was the host, 60-year-old Sir Richard Branson, billionaire bon vivant and founder of the Virgin Group. While he was at the center of the celebration, he was also making an incursion into enemy territory.
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With growth stalling, Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. is mulling changes that threaten to turn the burrito chain into what founder Steve Ells said it would never be: another fast-food joint.
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At the 2011 Hempcon medical marijuana convention in Denver in October, business lectures and panel discussions shared the program with more provocative events, like a Miss Hempcon pageant, in which scantily clad women, many of them dressed as nurses, danced for the audience.
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The title character of “Our Idiot Brother” is an organic farmer so naive that he sells pot to a uniformed cop who tells him it’s for his personal use.
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