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...week. The brothers, who talk as many as a dozen times a day by phone ("We have the same family. There is much to discuss," joked Lech in an interview with Time before the parliamentary vote), look set to dominate Polish politics for the next five years. The Kaczynskis' appeal is due in large part to their promises to maintain social programs threatened by their rivals in the Civic Platform party. Civic Platform advocated radical free-market reforms to slash the budget deficit and jump-start the economy, but voters shied away from these in favor...
...concept store selling a range of products," he says. "But whereas those stores have fashion as an anchor, ours is books." John McGlynn, publishing director of the Lontar Foundation, which translates Indonesian literature into English, describes Aksara as "a curator, choosing books and other things with a special appeal." It's a formula that's winning many fans. On any given day at Aksara's biggest branch in South Jakarta, you might chance upon a poetry reading or a performance from a local electronica group. The crowd is a good-natured mix of students, style mavens and young expats, while...
...addressing this second concern, it can’t provide the kind of funding that is really needed. Special-interest organizations and clubs may have more of an impact than HoCos on individual students’ lives, but HoCos are unique in their ability to appeal to the student body as a whole while fostering a sense of small-group community and comradeship in individuals who have nothing more in common than the setting of their education. House Stein Clubs, House Intramural teams, HoCo-sponsored parties, and House formals are almost uniformly successful and are accomplished with an average operating...
...part, based on the fact that the ’80s children are just starting to poke their heads into the worlds of parenting and marketing-executive-decision-making. And if fashions come back every twenty years, surely so could playthings. But the ’80s toy appeal seems to extend beyond this—my Lincoln Logs may have been born of an earlier time but they had evolved all along, not suddenly reappearing after a 20 year hiatus. Maybe we were all being duped by the marketing geniuses who realized that our consumer generation would more easily...
...After taking a year off, I no longer found [swimming] to be the challenge it used to be for me,” Tony says. “I had been swimming for so many years that it had lost its appeal. And then there were so many other fascinating and fun things at Harvard that I wanted to be a part of and so I hung up the old bathing suit, as it were...