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American Girl's success as both a direct marketer and an experiential retailer may be a harbinger of things to come. Mattel, the world's largest toymaker, may begin to follow a similar business model with other brands it owns, relying more on direct-to-consumer marketing to avoid the retail price-slashing wars that have rocked the industry, says Oppenheimer analyst Linda Bolton Weiser. Mattel's Fisher-Price division is already sending out its own catalog. Can Hot Wheels bumper-car birthday parties be far behind...
...being. She was more concerned about her family's reaction than what she might face in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison. So instead of waiting for agents to knock on her door, she told her husband and two children that she was going away to visit a friend. To avoid a traumatic scene, Ebadi slipped off to an Islamic court and turned herself in to a magistrate. She was taken to one of Evin's dirty, dark cells, where she endured 23 days of solitary confinement. She spent the time praying and reading the Koran, and was treated with respect...
...eyebrows when they signed a letter this fall refusing to participate in attacks on Palestinian militants hiding in populated areas of the West Bank and Gaza. Such "targeted eliminations," they argued, are "illegal and immoral" because they often cause civilian casualties. Israeli officials countered that pilots take pains to avoid injuring civilians, and the air force discharged the 27 dissenters, some of whom are decorated officers. Now the pilots are demanding they be reinstated. If the air force doesn't comply, they say, they will take their case to the Supreme Court. That is something Prime Minister Ariel Sharon...
Number portability began on Nov. 24. Finally, we will no longer be held hostage by poor service providers just to avoid that overwhelming fear of being disconnected from friends and family as we scramble to distribute a new number when we switch. According to The New York Times, FCC officials have estimated that 8.7 million people will probably change services now that number portability has become available—a clear indicator that people have in fact been trapped by their current providers...
...wide range of ideologies. The overarching goal, says David A. Weinfeld ’05, who is also a Crimson editor, is the “humanization” of the conflict. He believes that if Arab and Jewish student leaders develop strong personal relationships, perhaps Harvard can avoid the polarization that came in the wake of the divestment petition and the Jubran visit...