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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 1:06 pm
I honestly don't think Sandy's experience gave her team that much of an advantage. I think the mistakes the OTHER team made gave her team an advantage: 1. Passing out flyers at Penn Station and Grand Central? Duh! Those people are hurrying to work, and will not be interested in wedding dresses (especially since the sale started at 5pm, yes?). 2. Chris' attitude. They were doomed from the start. This man could NOT figure out what to do. It was simple -- research your market, advertise to your market, and sell. 3. The initial decision to have a mini bridal show, with almost no advertising. No wonder the vendors hung up on him. In addition, Bernadette helped Chris' team quite a bit. She gave them a lot of advice. I think the email blast was a great way to get their message across. It was "thinking outside the box" and, from the lines waiting to get it, was very successful. Passing out flyers is something you do when you want to raise money at a car wash. WRT Maria. Good lord that woman drives me nuts. She's highly incompetent (IMO) and I hope she goes next. I actually like Ivana more than Maria.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 1:35 pm
After seeing Kevin and Ivana interact this week, I also became more sympathetic toward Ms. Ivana. They talked to each other like adults, but I am beginning to think that Kevin is one of the top two applicants so it might be because of him. Maria is lovely. She may not be skilled, but she always looks nice and I have an abiding respect for someone who can do that blank face thing so well. I'm not a fan of Andy, no matter what. He needs a better wardrobe. It's not like he's David Boise or something.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 1:48 pm
I think Maria's contacts are dry, give her some saline!!!!
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Upstate
Member
01-16-2004
| Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 2:01 pm
i think andy has more on the ball then boise. all he did was make gates look like an idiot. with people skills that gates lacks that shouldn't of been that difficult. i hope kelly and his huge ego are fired next. he is too condescending. i hope all of marie's blunders are brought to light in the board room.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 2:37 pm
Hmmm. Boies is regarded as one of the best attorneys--some say the very best attorney--in the nation. His record speaks for itself [and I doubt even Andy would say, on even his best day, that he has "more on the ball" than Boies].
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 7:41 pm
I agree, Pamy, fire her and give her a case of saline.
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Upstate
Member
01-16-2004
| Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 8:10 pm
hmmmmmm everyone has their own opinion tishala. mine is boies is over rated. ya know that is why people post here........to offer an opinion.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, November 14, 2004 - 12:25 am
The National Law Journal, which called him "the Michael Jordan" of lawyers, named him "Lawyer of the Year" two years in a row. I trust their opinion. Boies was successful at getting seven of the world's largest drug companies to agree to pay $1.17 billion to settle an antitrust class action charging them with a worldwide conspiracy to fix vitamin prices. It's the largest award in an antitrust class action. Boies also represented Manhattan real estate magnate Sheldon H. Solow, who's case was against W.R. Grace & Co. The jury awarded Mr. Solow $11.5 million on asbestos-damage claims to his 57th Street building. I trust those opinions. Joel Klein selected Boies to represent the government in the Microsoft case because of the widely held belief that he is the best litigator in the country. I trust that opinion. Everyone, of course, is entitled to theirs.
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Weinermr
Member
08-18-2001
| Sunday, November 14, 2004 - 12:44 am
And the winner is....
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, November 14, 2004 - 1:23 am
Weiner, next time remind me not to use internationally renowned attorneys as symbols of sartorial negligence. I'll compare reality show contestants to sitcom stars or something instead.
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Weinermr
Member
08-18-2001
| Sunday, November 14, 2004 - 8:25 am
Will do Tish. 
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Auntiemike
Member
09-17-2001
| Sunday, November 14, 2004 - 3:15 pm
Just watched my TIVO of this show last night. Boy Chris sure lost it as PM and deserved to go. I am liking Kevin, Jen (the attorney) and Andy. Wonder who the final one will be. I wish Trump would do something drastic like fire more than one at a time....just to shake things up a little. I'd love to see Maria go, as well as Kelly and Sandy (tho' she did do well on this last task). Let's get back on topic and talk about the show and not lawyers, who "sucks" and who doesn't, etc. 
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, November 14, 2004 - 3:40 pm
Who/what is Boies?
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Sunday, November 14, 2004 - 4:39 pm
An attorney.. you may remember him as being involved in many legal briefs presented to various courts after the 2000 elections. DavidBoies
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, November 14, 2004 - 4:39 pm
He's an attorney who wears rumpled clothing all the time...and sneakers. Apparently it is sinful to compare Andy's bad wardrobe to Mr. Boies'...
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Wendo
Member
08-07-2000
| Sunday, November 14, 2004 - 5:21 pm
I agree with Fabsnab, Chris's team was not at a disadvantage because Sandy was on the other team. The industry had nothing to do with the challenge. It was executing basic business strategies. Chris just failed; immensely. He gave up the minute he heard it was a bridal shop task. Instead, he should've looked at it as a challenge. And, to those who think TheKnot.com is some obscure website; entering "bridal websites new york" into Google brought it up as the third listing. If Chris had put 10% of the effort into research that he did complaining, he would've likely done a lot better. IMO, he deserved to be fired.
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Cathie
Member
08-16-2000
| Monday, November 15, 2004 - 10:55 am
The Knot is very popular with brides from all across the nation. When my daughter got married last May we regularly visited The Knot web site and ordered several things from there for her TX wedding; we both still get emails from them regarding newlywed stuff, creating "the nest", etc. I think it was a brilliant idea to advertise through them; if we lived in the NY area and needed a dress it would have been something we would have done.
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