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Although that feud is part of sports lore, the saga of Adidas also holds insights into the durability of a global brand. Adidas survived corporate intrigue, near bankruptcy and being outmarketed and overtaken by Nike. It is still the No. 2 maker of sporting goods in the world...
...problem is that hopelessness has overtaken society," says Maziar Aghazadeh, a spectacled activist in the reformist Iran Youth Party, now in charge of campaign advertising for the United Reformists Coalition. "Our responsibility is to get the youth of this country interested in politics again," he adds between phone calls. "Our election slogan is 'Join our path, dear, because this common pain won't be healed separately.' And what we tell young people is that we have no choice but to participate. If we don't despair, eventually, not in these majles elections, but eventually, we will win, because our numbers...
...much more sex there is in entertainment, on the internet, and in public discussion. Less expected, however, is how thoroughly French women have closed the gap with men in terms of number of lovers, age of initiation, and variety of acts engaged in. In some measures, women have overtaken men for the first time. Only 3.5% of women aged 18-35 years now say they are sexually abstinent, for example, versus 6.2% for males of the same age. French women are engaging in sex from a younger age and more frequently than before, while 20% of French men aged...
...home to some nasty people, saying and doing nasty things. But most of those aren't from Doble. From what Sven and I saw, Doble itself, like much of Africa and Arabia, is a place full of hospitable villagers struggling to survive amid what the U.N. says has now overtaken Darfur as Africa's worst humanitarian disaster, with 1.8 million people in dire need of assistance. And if drought, starvation and disease weren't enough, they now find themselves on the latest battleground in a global war between the U.S. and al-Qaeda. The victims of Monday's missile strike...
...According to recent polls, 77 percent of French people believe Kerviel is a “victim” of the system. Bruno Jeanbart, a French pollster, told Bloomberg, “French opinion perceives [Kerviel] as a man in the street, overtaken by the system.” That was just the tip of the iceberg. The popular French daily Le Monde addressed Kerviel as a “hero of our time” on February 2nd, and that same day, Le Figaro revealed that only 13 percent of people believed the trader was responsible for the scandal...