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...Dawson’s polished finishing skills, lethal irrespective of his distance from the goal line, undermined an otherwise successful Princeton defense twice midway through the second quarter...
...cavernous expanse of the Loeb wasn’t being but to full use. The play itself occurs on what is normally the mainstage’s stage, and seating is situated alongside it. The whole affair, then, conjures the close-quarters feel of the Ex while providing twice the seating capacity and retaining the Loeb’s atrocious acoustics. This is a mixed bag, and though I heartily endorse avoiding the temptation the Loeb presents to produce mammoth, overly-ambitious and preposterous casts-of-scores student theater mega-disasters (think: Chess), there is perhaps some as-yet-undiscovered...
...China's kitchens. Chinese dress in their baggiest jeans to sit at Starbucks, which has opened 100 outlets and plans hundreds more. China's biggest seller of athletic shoes, Li Ning, recently surrendered its top position to Nike, even though Nike's shoes--upwards of $100 a pair--cost twice as much. The new middle class "seeks Western culture," says Zhang Wanli, a social scientist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. "Nike was smart because it didn't enter China selling usefulness, but selling status...
...company had its share of horror stories too, struggling with production problems (gray sneakers instead of white), rampant knock-offs, then criticism that it was exploiting Chinese labor. Cracking the market in a big way seemed impossible. Why would the Chinese consumer spend so much--twice the average monthly salary back in the late 1990s--on a pair of sneakers...
Ever since the vice presidential debates, the airwaves have been abuzz with the ins and outs of Mary Cheney’s sexuality. The Kerry campaign claims that the daughter of the vice president is “fair game” and that the point in twice bringing her up was to praise Dick Cheney for his family’s tolerance. The Republican party may cringe at the extended airtime given to the controversial topic, but—as William Safire implied in his Oct. 18th editorial column in the New York Times—that they might...