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...equally frustrated by all the Flori-duh jokes still rippling from the state's 2000 presidential recount debacle. But for all those laughs at its expense, that mess revealed what a crucial swing state Florida had become, and Crist feels the state was squandering its kingmaker cachet with a primary so late in the season. By leapfrogging ahead of the Feb. 5 Super Tuesday contests, the Sunshine State has landed in a larger national spotlight - and so has its irrepressibly sunny governor...
...company gDiapers. With disposable inserts and fashionable, washable coverings, gDiapers launched in 2005 and are sold in Whole Foods stores. There is one catch: the component to be flushed needs to be swished around in the toilet before it goes down. But the diapers come with a certain cachet: Julia Roberts, mother of twins Hazel and Phinnaeus, 3, and 7-month-old Henry...
...language of branding," opined an angry editorial (entitled "Racism Can't Halt Indian Takeovers") in India's Economic Times. The days of "white supremacy are disappearing rapidly, and white brand value with it," the piece went on. "When Arab financiers are needed to rescue Citigroup, notions of white cachet seem ludicrous...
...want to think about international diamond theft again? Harvard’s myriad comps combine all the pleasures of applying with the thrill of what for many Harvard students is an exciting new possibility: rejection. And this is in fact a good thing. Without rejection, acceptance would lose its cachet. Besides, as T. H. Huxley observed, “There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.” Each comp gives Harvard students the chance to catch up on all the lessons of failure that they missed out on earlier. For valuable...
...listen to Kanye’s “Stronger” or Missy Elliott’s “Touch It.” Not to mention that they played at James Murphy’s house. And then there’s the hipster cachet: that they perform in a triangular spaceship. That they only appear publicly in space helmets. That they’ve crossed over into the A/V world with “Interstella 5555” (a Japanese animation scored by the “Discovery” album) and their latest film...