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...very least, you need to think regionally. Ideally, you should think globally." A global image helps sell products, even if no one but Filipinos would ever want to buy duck-fetus eggs or Thais the most pungent variety of shrimp paste. Yanto Zainal, president of Macs909, a boutique ad agency in Jakarta, used all indos for a campaign for the local Matahari department store chain. "The store wanted to promote a more cosmopolitan image," he says. "Indos have an international look but can still be accepted as Indonesian...
...Cerratani simply could not keep up on his last service game. Choo pressed the ball deep and down the middle in order to avoid the wind pushing the ball out. When Choo finally got a match point with Cerratani serving at ad-out, he took advantage of it and won the set, 6-4, to give Harvard its fourth point and the match...
With examples like these, the calculation for most student activists is dangerously simple. Higher escalation leads to greater concessions. But escalation has its costs, not just for the students involved—they claim to be prepared to face the consequences, whether they be arrest, expulsion or the Ad Board—but for the University as a whole. One need only look to the strike of 1969 for an example of how quickly things can get out of control...
...University administrators, to inform and mobilize alumni for their cause, to obtain endorsements from more than 100 faculty members and government leaders, to hold rallies with hundreds of students and occasional celebrities and to argue vigorously in the campus and national media. Though we believe PSLM’s ad hominem attacks on administrators and Corporation members to be ultimately counterproductive, they are not an illegitimate means to seek a living wage...
...years. President Neil L. Rudenstine’s father and mother, both blue-collar workers, never earned a living wage in their entire careers, and he repeatedly emphasizes how deeply he understands the movement’s concerns. In response to PSLM’s demands, Rudenstine convened an ad hoc committee on employment practices which recommended increased overall compensation for Harvard workers. The committee did not endorse PSLM’s demands because, in the words of Provost Harvey V. Fineberg, it decided that a living wage was a “variable and somewhat arbitrary definition [that] omits...