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...commercial, unrelated to pressure from afa. The U.K. Advertising Standards Authority (asa) in recent months received 19 complaints that the gay kiss featured in Dolce & Gabbana's TV spot was "unacceptable" (asa dismissed the complaints upon investigation). Brewer Guinness didn't even get that far. In the mid-'90s, the company created a TV commercial featuring a man dashing to get ready for work; when he kisses his partner on the way out - to the tune of Tammy Wynette's Stand by Your Man - it becomes clear that his partner too is male. A veteran clean-up-TV activist panned...
...bombs in Bombay in late 2002 and 2003, killing 70 people. Lashkar-e-Toiba, meaning army of the pure, has fought Indian rule in Kashmir since the early 1990s, and is believed to have links with al-Qaeda. Largely funded by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency in the '90s, LeT was designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. in 2001. It was subsequently banned by Pakistan, but it has nevertheless been implicated in several attacks on Indian government buildings and in a recent massacre of non-Muslim villagers in Kashmir. Both LeT and SIMI deny any involvement with...
...eloquently capture the tussle between international commerce and the locals over the Mediterranean's resources as the annual summer hunt for bluefin tuna. Much of the Med's tuna is no longer caught by traditional means. High-tech "tuna ranches" began appearing in the Med in the late '90s and have proliferated over the past decade - fish farms consisting of circular floating cages about 50 m in diameter and 50 m deep, set up 2-3 km from shore. The ranches are most often controlled not by small European operators but by large multinational corporations. In the cages, tuna fatten...
...This conviction is an indication of just how far the Japanese economy has come. Following the stock and property collapses of the early '90s, most businesses and consumers drastically cut their spending and investments. With demand falling, prices dropped too, exacerbating businesses' unwillingness to invest in new ventures, and Japan found itself in a disastrous deflationary spiral. In desperation, the BOJ reduced interest rates to zero in 1999, but it had little impact for years because Japanese companies were hobbled by so many other problems, like bloated payrolls and debt-laden balance sheets. Under the reform agenda initiated by Prime...
WILL LEO'S FILM BREAK THE ICE? Leonardo Dicaprio is giving gem execs the jitters. He plays a diamond smuggler in The Blood Diamond, a Sierra Leone--set drama that depicts how gem sales funded African civil wars in the '90s. De Beers says it will spend $15 million to counter publicity its execs believe will hurt sales around the film's winter release. In other words, they're finally spending their profits from J. Lo's engagement rings...