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This unscripted strategy might sound like a big risk--there's nothing stopping the volunteers from saying they hate a product. But despite the conventional wisdom that consumers are much more likely to voice complaints than praise, recent research finds the opposite. In one study, Andrea Wojnicki, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Toronto, looked at self-styled experts and found that they were likely to keep negative experiences to themselves, lest their skill--at, say, picking a restaurant--be called into question...
...that point, he says, Andrea Carpani, the driver of the car, jumped out with his hands raised high, "We're Italians! We're Italians!" he cried. The soldiers retracted their weapons and heard a woman's voice inside. It was Sgrena. When the medic opened the back door, Nicola Calipari was lying unconscious on the seat next to her. "For Calipari, it was too late," Lozano says, adding that attempts to resuscitate him failed...
...inflated contracts, corporate mismanagement, mindless rerecordings of the warhorses and a welter of weak-minded classical-lite crossover acts. The book ends with a list of the 100 best classical recordings of all time, richly annotated with backstage gossip--and the 20 worst. When Lebrecht takes apart Andrea Bocelli's recording of Verdi's Requiem, you don't know who to feel sorrier for, Bocelli or Verdi, whose work the sweet-voiced but technically underpowered pop star "vocally murdered...
...mother, head in oven, died/ And me, already dead inside/ I was an empty tin/ Where nothing rattled in.") In addition, Hughes spent five years painting an abstract landscape of her life, 4 ft. high and 225 ft. long in 45 panels, which complements the poetry. TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke with Hughes in an exclusive American interview from Hughes' home in Wales, where she lives with her husband, Hungarian-born painter Laszlo Lukacs...
...very proud of the program and since the recent criticism was launched we have received hundreds of e-mails from educators, parents and former Book It participants, all supporting the program,” spokesman Christopher D. Fuller wrote in an e-mailed statement after refusing a telephone interview. Andrea L. Mills, a New York resident and parent, said she lobbied her son’s preschool to discontinue the Book It program. “Promoting reading is something I want to do, but I don’t think advertising for Pizza Hut is necessarily the best...