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...semisuccessful beer distributorship before trying to produce their own brands. Their first choices were a little less refined than mandarin-orange-flavored green tea sweetened with honey. They started Midnight Dragon malt liquor in the mid-1980s and, to promote it, printed thousands of posters featuring a scantily clad woman sipping Midnight Dragon through a straw and a vulgar tagline. Midnight Dragon peaked at 3 million cases annually. In the early '90s, Vultaggio's Crazy Horse malt liquor took off, until protests and lawsuits from Native American groups compelled some states...
Before they arrive for the whirlwind of Freshman Week, starry-eyed first-years are mailed the blandly-titled booklet “Conversations with Faculty and Staff: Readings for Freshman,” that includes essays by Emerson, Ellison, and Jane Adams. Harvard thus seems to be the ivy-clad place where students are not simply educated, but are taught to view the ethical implications and obligations of their education. You know, the weighty stuff.Upon arriving, freshmen are treated to a brief lecture and hour-long discussion on the essays, which are then quickly tossed aside in favor of more...
...this question last night in a discussion called “Reflections on Masculinity,” hosted by the Black Men’s Forum (BMF) and the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR). Slides showing commercial depictions of masculinity, including a juxtaposition of the scantily-clad and violent hulks of today’s wrestling rings with the “zany and comical” wrestlers admired in the 1980s and early 90s, opened the event, which drew an audience of over 40 men and women to Emerson Hall. But moderator Gordon Braxton, a prevention...
...daybreak, 40 more bodies were found around the city, most bearing signs of torture before the men were killed execution-style. The most gruesome discovery was an 18-by-24-foot mass grave in the Shi'ite slum of Kamaliyah in east Baghdad containing the bodies of 29 men, clad only in their underwear with their hands bound and their mouths covered with tape. Local residents only found it because the ground was oozing blood. In all, 87 bodies were found over two days in Baghdad...
...bought wheels, arms, foam padding and plywood chair bodies from local components manufacturers; and hired 20 friends to assemble the parts into finished products. Today his Heaven Office Furniture makes 1,000 kinds of office chairs, from executive models in black leather and chrome to squat cloth-clad cubicle standards. Zhu won his first export contract in 2004. He also attended the Cologne Furniture Fair in Germany and sent 80% of his $3 million output to 20 countries. Through a screen of plastic bamboo along his office window, he points out the new factory he's building next door...