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...million last year, are produced for charitable causes by a for-profit firm called Pallotta Teamworks. In the 1990s, Pallotta elevated the folksy fund-raising trend to a well-marketed mass movement with glossy brochures and inspirational videos. But that kind of approach is turning off do-gooders like Carol Peeples, 44, a teacher in Salida, Colo., who raised $2,500 for a Pallotta-run Avon Breast Cancer Walk last year. Peeples and other walkers received a coffee-table-book-size color catalog promoting various Pallotta causes, like a suicide-prevention walk in Washington; they were required to watch...
Embedded messages about race and gender are arguably even more damaging. Harvard Medical School professor Carol Newberger argues in Monopoly that Beauty and the Beast implicitly encourages young girls to stay in abusive relationships. With the title characters’ relationship at times resembling domestic violence—she is isolated from her family and imprisoned—the film suggests to viewers that it is the job of the abused to, in Newberger’s words, “socialize and excuse” the abuser...
...With that in mind, the women's market offers unlimited possibilities. Women account for only one-third of the $14 billion in annual athletic-footwear sales, but evidence suggests they would be willing to spend more. "Women tend not to be price sensitive. They will pay full price," says Carol Murray, senior analyst for apparel and footwear at Salomon Smith Barney. "And it's clear that color and fashion are as important to women as performance...
...Carol Shepherd, who co-taught the course with Pollack for about three years while a doctoral candidate at the School of Public Health, remembered him as “a really nice...
...express deep sorrow for the family of the victim of this horrible crime, Aleta Carol Bunch. But as has been said many times before, nothing can bring Aleta back, nor will executing her killer right any wrong. Life in prison will prevent him from ever having the chance to commit a crime again...