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...creator of Bratz for working for MGA while still employed by Mattel and four years after the teenage bad-girl Bratz started strutting down the aisle with their oversize heads, bare bellies and hip-hop flair. A spokesman for MGA would not comment on pending litigation, but a Mattel rep was willing to take a swipe: "Apparently MGA has become concerned enough that it feels compelled to make an offensive strike...
...making the honorable decision. Founder Rouben Terzian says he hopes the dolls, with more than $3 million in sales in less than a year, will teach girls to "think with your heart and do the right thing." In keeping with its sugar-and-spice products, an American Girl rep says the company welcomes the competition "if the result is better products on the market for girls."--By Jeninne Lee-St. John. With reporting by Matt Kettmann
Confrontation has gotten its bad rep because people don’t execute it very well. But ambiguity is out. It is so last season. Spain is the new France, gold the new pink. And while it may be a bit uncomfortable at first, the only way to fully solve a problem and move past it is to face it directly and not passively. As my shrewd red-haired friend says, the most important thing we learn from James Bond movies is that you only live twice. And you should only hit the snooze button once...
Similarly, she vacillates between pride at her savvy sex-columnist rep and the mortified confession that she’s really no more experienced than the rest of the world. In order for these contrasts to work, the narrator has to be more than somewhat self-aware. Because Chloe neither fully embraces her own shallowness nor seeks to delve into its roots, the only conclusion we can draw is that her insecurity is a petulant display—more act than reality...
...Rep. Jack Kingston of Georgia spent his recess going to Social Security town halls and testing another proposal: the lockbox. In 2000, Al Gore campaigned on the idea of putting the surpluses that Social Security currently generates into a so-called "lockbox" that would prevent the government from spending the money on other things as it does now. Kingston notes many Republicans also have had this same idea and it would help mobilize public support that would give Congress credibility for a more ambitious Social Security reform in a few years...