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...millions of dollars Mt. Sinai was rumored to have paid for the team, as well as the full-page ad it ran in the New York Times announcing that “the best just got better,” turned what some call a routine hiring into a political squabble...
...after being approached by Nike to train for Nagano on the company dime. He is still competing using money from Nike and the Kenyan Olympic Committee. Other lone athletes have also struck it lucky with sponsorship. Swiss businessman Toni Hauswirth, who owns property in Fiji, took out an ad in a Fijian newspaper in 1999 offering an all-expenses paid trip to the Olympics (training base in Switzerland included) for the most promising ski candidate. Laurence Thoms, a ski instructor in New Zealand with a Fijian mother and passport, beat out the other applicants, none of whom had seen snow...
...things, using the facilities at a sushi bar in San Francisco when I had a realization. Those ever insidious pests—advertisements—have quietly made their way into even the most personal of our private moments. On one wall, behind the toilet, was an ad for the movie, “Orange County.” Behind me, above a stack of spare toilet paper rolls, was a poster for Charmin brand bathroom tissues. And beside the sink, glaring at me while I washed my hands, was an advertisement for liquid hand soap...
...Ad absurdum arguments aside, we sincerely hope to see the day that homosexuals enjoy the same rights to which every citizen is entitled. What we dislike is the mistaking of an academic discipline for social acceptance. The desire to find “marginalized discourses, perspectives and theories” should be weighed against the cost and importance of their study and against whether this research could be fit coherently into a larger, less exclusionary whole. Why not have a Department of Gender and Sexuality that could deal with all aspects of these topics? Why break down into ever-smaller...
...advertising that we've seen in the last two election cycles," Corrado believes. The millions of dollars in unregulated soft money enabled the two parties to spend lavishly on TV. They won't able to do as much of that under the new regulations, which also ban sham "issue" ads being broadcast on TV or radio just before an election, whose real purpose is to attack a candidate. But the bill allows corporations, labor unions and especially special interest groups to pump practically all the money they want into grass-roots activities, such as get-out-the-vote drives...