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This dynamic can be best demonstrated by the baneful effects of PC on other elite campuses with less open-minded administrations. Amherst College has forbid the sale of Coca-Cola products on campus because of the corporation's investments in South Africa-despite Coca-Cola's brilliant record of providing scholarships for Black South Africans and other aid for the oppressed non-white majority of that racist regime...
...social club for the high IQed, grew tired of his neighbors' loud music and barking dogs. He left a death threat on the door, and when that didn't work he slipped into the Carr family kitchen and laced some thallium nitrite into a pack of 16-oz. Coca-Cola Classic bottles. A few days later Peggy Carr's hair began falling out. Her feet burned, her fingers tingled and her stomach turned. Within a few weeks she was in a coma; three months later she was dead. Her sons and husband also showed symptoms but eventually recovered...
...trend began with the economic slowdown last year, the gulf war is hastening it. Companies are growing increasingly nervous about airing frivolous product ads alongside the brutal images of warfare. The fear of offending viewers with inappropriate messages has prompted many consumer- products giants -- including AT&T, McDonald's, Coca-Cola and Eastman Kodak -- to pull TV ads that air during news broadcasts...
...Africa, American films are watched in American-style drive-in theaters to the accompaniment of hamburgers and fries, washed down with Coca-Cola. One of the biggest cultural events in Kenya in recent weeks has been the national disco-dancing championships. But in Nairobi last month, two dozen representatives of cultural organizations held a seminar on "Cultural Industry for East and Central Africa" and concluded that something must be done to roll back Western (primarily American) dominance of cinema, television, music and dance. "Our governments must adopt conscious policies to stop the dazzle of Western culture from creeping...
America is immensely popular in Eastern Europe. Newly liberated, East Europeans crave for America, for them a mixture of freedom and modernity, of the Statue of Liberty, of Coca-Cola and of blue jeans -- a symbiosis between liberating principle and pop culture. West Europeans, celebrating the regained unity of the Continent and the prospect of a renaissance there, also yearn to keep close to America. Still not autonomous in terms of security, they want Americans to stay on European soil, not only to provide a balance vis-a-vis the remaining military power of the Soviet Union but also...