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...initiative when I see one. The Philip Morris Co. has been engaging in similar efforts for the past year or so. The tobacco and so-much-more company has new ads proclaiming its support of the "We Card" program to prevent children from buying cigarettes. In the ad, a bunch of kids dressed for a prom attempt to buy smokes from a kindly yet firm store owner, who tells us that belonging to the We Card program makes it easier for him to turn down the kids. There is a lacuna in logic here, but the point, apparently, is that...
Stupidly--smartly is not within their natural range--a bunch of guys at mythical Ithaca College snail-mail the wrong videotape. They think they are sending the one in which Josh (Breckin Meyer) expresses his moony affection for his lifelong girlfriend Tiffany (Rachel Blanchard), who is studying veterinary medicine in faraway Austin, Texas. What they actually dispatch is hard evidence that he has strayed with Beth (Amy Smart...
...Quincy House, I saw a bunch of them in the trash can by the elevator," Shumsky says. "[Door-dropping] doesn't mean that a roommate isn't going to get there first and throw everything in the door basket away...
...vague cultural phenomenon snapped into sharp focus for me recently at a restaurant opening in Manhattan. The revelers at Dylan were mostly twentysomethings and soooo trendy. They looked like a bunch of Gap models with cell phones pressed to their beautiful little ears. More on point, virtually all of them were chastened day traders. A young partner in the restaurant venture confided that the volatile NASDAQ had all but ruined him, prompting him to--oh no!--start a career...
...Right. It's hard to resurrect things after anticompetitive practices. But our remedies will keep the door open for other cross-platform products in the future. That's critical, because a whole bunch of new technologies could develop soon if Microsoft's anticompetitive tactics don't strangle them...