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Specialty/Non-Apparel (InternetRetailer.com) Mass merchants have customers with wide-ranging tastes looking for any number of products. Specialty retailers, however, are filling a niche. And in niche retailing, it's critical that merchants know their customers very well. Hollywood?s Bull Market in Ego (New York Times) Blanchett, DiCaprio, Hathaway, Hoffman, Langella, Penn, Pitt, Streep, Winslet: The Carpetbagger asks who will walk the red carpet with a statue at stake? A M Naik (Business Standard India) The 19 finalists this year come from diverse sectors and backgrounds. However, they are united in their desire to achieve beyond the ordinary. Academy Awards market is bullish on ego (Lancaster Online) Against the backdrop of a historic presidential election and a vortex of economic dysfunction, the burgeoning Oscar season seems even sillier than usual. After all, who really cares about the throw-down for best supporting actor at a time when the citizenry seems poised for a run on its own banksBu... EFFINGHAM EVENTS (Savannah Morning News) Martin Luther King Essay Workshop EFFINGHAM EVENTS (Savannah Morning News) Springfield City Council EFFINGHAM EVENTS (Savannah Morning News) Courthouse Renovation Committee Crunch week as Oscars hopefuls take center stage (Los Angeles Times) "Revolutionary Road," "The Reader" and "Australia," among others, get shown to the majority of press and early awards voters. Taubman Museum of Art Opens New Building To The Public Today (Art Daily) Taubman Museum of Art Main Entry and Atrium. Credit: Timothy Hursley. Courtesy Taubman Museum of Art. ROANOKE, VA.- Glatfelter Reports Record Quarterly Sales and 56% Increase in Specialty Papers' Operating Income (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) YORK, Pa.----Glatfelter today reported record quarterly net sales of $339.8 million for the third quarter ended September 30, 2008, a 16.4% increase compared with $291.9 million for the third quarter of 2007.
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