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...coarse, but it is also incendiary and witheringly derisive - and it could be exactly what a generation of young voters weaned on Jackass and reality TV will respond to. Whatever its impact at home, Fahrenheit 9/11 has only cemented Moore's standing in Europe, where his blunt, truth-teller pose has won him myriad fans and hero status. People know his shortcomings - Le Monde calls Fahrenheit 9/11 "simplistic and often demagogic" - but cheer him on anyway. His latest book, Dude, Where's My Country? , has been on the German best-seller lists for more than 30 weeks. The idea that...
...unfold. More than 1,200 people have shown up, and rumors are swirling. Someone says a well-known local dancer is trying out. Others have heard that Grande Fratello wants to introduce a sibling tandem for the first time, prompting a pair of friends to discuss whether they should pose as brothers. On the other side of the Naples hotel parking lot, a goateed 170-kg Massimiliano Rocco is getting agitated. "I can assure you, they've already picked their contestants. This is just a P.R. stunt." Then why, asks someone, did you bother to come? "The only...
...Cola, was designed to provide a domestic alternative to market leaders Coca-Cola and Pepsi. "What they can do, the Chinese people can do as well," says Shan Qining, a Wahaha spokesman. (Never mind that French yogurtmaker Danone owns 51% of Wahaha.) But the homegrown alternative has yet to pose a challenge to the American biggies, which account for 67% of the market in China, according to Beverage Digest. In the U.S., Wahaha already has a toehold: last year it sold $1 million worth of its sweet milkbased drink for children, AD Gai Nai, which it says "promotes brain development...
Soon after his arrest, Middlesex District Court refused to grant Pring-Wilson bail because his knowledge of foreign languages meant he could pose a flight risk. On May 14, 2003 a Superior Court judge released Pring-Wilson from jail on $400,000 bail...
...lack of female senior Faculty members within a department can pose problems when recruiting women to fill junior Faculty positions, Nancy Tobin ’49, research chair for the Committee for the Equality of Women at Harvard (CEWH), told The Crimson in February. CEWH was founded by Radcliffe alums...