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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...special-interest coddler, a roadblock to reform. On Friday, Bush's campaign unveiled the first TV commercial of the Bush-Gore contest, an education-reform spot running in Illinois and reaching parts of Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri. "Gore and Clinton had eight years, but they've failed," the ad says. "As President, George W. Bush will challenge the status quo with a crusade to improve education." In response, Gore put up an ad pointing out that reading scores "are going up across America," styling himself a champion of "revolutionary improvements to our schools" and attacking Bush for attacking...
DAME EDNA, A.K.A BARRY HUMPHRIES AGE: 66 OCCUPATION: Star of Broadway one-man show Dame Edna: The Royal Tour BEST PUNCH: Ran an ad in the New York Times that read, "You don't have to be Jewish to adore my show!"--a pointed reference to Mason, who performs down the block...
...said that she, Lewis and Avery had met with the Faculty's ad-hoc committee on diversity to discuss establishing a mentorship program for women in the sciences, aimed at filling the gap created by the demise of Radcliffe College's Science Alliance...
Attention, corporate America: do your research. Executives at the Gap offered the Pretenders' CHRISSIE HYNDE $100,000 to use her song Stop Your Sobbing in an "Everybody in Leather" ad campaign, only to learn that Hynde--a vegetarian since 1969--is an activist for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Faster than you can say publicity nightmare, Hynde and PETA went on the offensive, staging protests outside Gap stores in Chicago, Washington and New York City, where Hynde was arrested last Thursday for criminal mischief. Specifically, PETA objects to the Gap's use of leather from India and China...
...Tobacco's marketing success, however, is now being turned against it in a way that gives parents new hope. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts studied teens over a period of five years as the state tested a new, edgy antismoking media blitz. The ads were designed not to educate teens about the health risks of smoking (they already know about that) but instead to show them that there is another group of powerful adults, in addition to their parents and teachers, that is trying to tell teens what to think about tobacco. These ads give kids a look...