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...abroad - they betray a sexual naïveté when exposed to a society so much more practiced in the art of gracious loving. And no less than Vicky and Cristina, Allen is almost starstruck by the Spaniards, and the Mediterranean ease in forming, then releasing, sexual liaisons. The hallmark of his characters is the fumbling confession of furtive love; but in this idealized Catalonia, where nothing romantic is forbidden, everything is beautiful, as natural as breathing in synch with the woman who has fallen asleep in your arms...
...tackle global poverty and disease. He kept dialing the private numbers of top executives and thrusting his cell phone at me to hear their sleepy yet enthusiastic replies. As crazy as it seemed that night, Bono's persistence soon gave birth to the (RED) campaign. Today companies like Gap, Hallmark and Dell sell (RED)-branded products and donate a portion of their profits to fight AIDS. (Microsoft recently signed up too.) It's a great thing: the companies make a difference while adding to their bottom line, consumers get to show their support for a good cause, and - most important...
...February 2006, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz was asked on TV if opening 1,300 stores in the US in a single year was "too much too fast." "Not at all," the then-chairman said. "We have been a growth company for the last 20 years. And the hallmark of that growth has been our ability to invest ahead of the growth curve...
...study found that while gentrification did not necessarily push out original residents, it did create neighborhoods that middle-class minorities moved to. The addition of white college graduates, especially those under 40 without children, was a hallmark of gentrifying neighborhoods - that much fit the conventional wisdom - but so was the influx of college-educated blacks and Hispanics, who moved to gentrifying neighborhoods more often than they to did similar, more static areas. Two other groups tended to move more often into upwardly mobile neighborhoods as well: 40-to-60-year-old Hispanics without a high-school degree, and similarly uneducated...
...Paul, Obama declared that the 2008 campaign had changed McCain, who he said "can legitimately tout moments of independence from his party in the past," but has not made "such independence the hallmark of his presidential campaign." In both speeches, the candidates agreed that the voters' hunger for change in Washington and across the country will define the terms of the November election...