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There were other changes as well. Respected longtime adviser John Sasso moved from the Democratic National Committee to the campaign plane, where he cut through the clutter that had so often surrounded decisions that had to be made on the spot and offered the mature sounding board that Kerry had been missing. Kerry's traveling staff took to calling Sasso "the Wolf," after Harvey Keitel's fixer character in Pulp Fiction. The old hands like Cahill, Cutter and Shrum remained in place, leaving everyone to wonder how well the campaign would function with two camps vying to guide it through...
...feeds, much as e-mail newsletters currently feature ads. But many remain wary of muddying RSS with advertising. "I think there's the potential for a backlash against ads in feeds," says Eric Peterson, an analyst for Jupiter Research, because they might alienate users by destroying the flow of clutter-free information. The danger, RSS proponents realize, is that RSS ads could become just like Web pop-ups or e-mail ads - another form of spam. But Peterson doubts whether either subscription or advertising can sustain stand-alone RSS firms. Acquisition, he suggests, might be the best business strategy...
...There is no real system,” Mona S. Stoicescu ’05 said. “You have to look through all of the [packages]. People just leave their stuff here and it adds to all the clutter...
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...Both for locals and for visitors from abroad, nothing seems to symbolize India's transformation from a stagnant third-world country into an emerging economic super-power as much as its sparkling new malls. American brand names like Levi's and McDonald's clutter the air-conditioned interiors, teenagers in low-cut jeans hang out in groups, cappuccino is sold at kiosks, and everyone appears to be having a great time. Eager to cash in, India's real estate developers are in a frenzy: up to 600 malls are likely to be up and running in India...