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...While most businesses worship at the altar of youth, Saga realized early on that there's often more money to be made from the mature. Marketers have traditionally shunned older consumers, preferring to aim their pitches at a younger audience it hopes to groom into lifelong customers. But Tim Bull, Saga's group marketing director, says mature consumers are just as eager to buy as youngsters, though they are savvier and more discerning. They are also richer - much richer. "They control 80% of the nation's wealth and they're very happy to spend it," says Fiona Hought, managing director...
...faith, but I've seen [Martin Scorsese's violent, R-rated Mob drama] The Departed twice. Would I like to see more biblically based, spiritually based stories? I sure would. As long as they're of quality." The two producers who spearheaded the film are a Catholic altar boy from Texas turned Hollywood agent and a Tennessean who grew up attending a charismatic Christian church and recently produced Alien vs. Predator. And then there's Hardwicke, raised by Texas Presbyterians and best known for her gritty portraits of young people in Thirteen and Lords of Dogtown. For her, the most...
...institutions to use the valuable tool that is affirmative action—a tool which, in reality, allows these institutions to make wiser and more informed decisions and, thus, to do their jobs better. We are disappointed Michigan voters rejected this logic, choosing instead to sacrifice diversity on the altar of false equality...
...have such dramatic ideas behind their midnight Halloween concert, but nine performers explored the spookier side of the instrument late Tuesday evening.The Society put on the show for a modest crowd, some costumed, in Memorial Church. The church lights were dimmed and a screen erected on the altar so the audience could see the performers at work. Edward Jones, the Gund University organist and choirmaster and curator of the University Organs, began the evening with J.S. Bach’s famous Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. Jones performed the impressive piece at an atypically brisk pace...
...Canto, by a barricade, there is a more shocking ofrenda to Will's memory: one adorned with a photograph of his naked body in the morgue, framed by handwritten messages and cempazuchil, the yellow flower of the dead, as well as an image of the Virgin of Juquila. The altar is lit by copal, the resin that is supposed to guide lost souls after dark. One message reads, "Bradley Will, you are not dead, you are in our minds and hearts...