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...appeal of Harvard is worldwide," said Neal Kent, who is marketing the Harvard trademark in Australia and New Zealand. "Collegiate licensing is a lifestyle. It's a part of Americana. Harvard reflects the League, and they look for this overseas...
...filmmakers pepper House Party with a wide range of cultural references, from Public Enemy (the rap group) to Public Enemy (the Cagney classic). But most of their humor is homeboy, or what Reginald calls "Afro-Americana. Little bits of junk culture that tie the black community together." That's what the Hudlins hope to do now that, as Warrington puts it, "every studio in Hollywood has said they'd finance our next movie." As a kid, Warrington thought "movies were like magic that was performed in Hollywood." Now he and his brother have learned that if you believe in magic...
Thousands of companies have learned that if their products are second-rate, customers will take their business elsewhere. -- Ominously, the huge U.S. seizures of cocaine in recent months have done almost nothing to boost the price of the drug. -- Japan's Mitsubishi Estate picks up a piece of Americana with a major investment in Rockefeller Center. -- Ford buys a sporty number: Jaguar...
Germany was conquered, then divided into two states designed to remain forever in a state of permanent, if cold, antagonism. Pax Americana and Pax Sovietica solved the German problem. To put it another way, the first achievement of NATO is that it contained the Soviet Union. The second achievement, underappreciated now but not for long, is that with the collaboration of the Soviet Union, it solved the German problem...
During the postwar "Pax Americana," Washington's world role largely involved resisting Communism through a network of military alliances. That period is passing, being replaced by what has been dubbed a "Fax Americana." America's influence will derive, in part, from its role as an exemplar of ideas and a purveyor of information. Ronald Reagan, in a speech in London last month, talked about how "electronic beams blow through the Iron Curtain as if it were lace." In Bratislava, Czechoslovak students sometimes drop by the city's new hotel, equipped for international television reception, where the maids let them watch...