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Coke is it, even for Tutu--In the United States, many college activists have urged their fellow students to boycott products of the Coca-Cola Company, because Coca-Cola still has investments in South Africa. But when a reporter went to the Charles Hotel this week to interview South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu--the Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader of the anti-apartheid movement--Tutu was serving Coke...
...those were the days, nearly 20 years ago, when Coca-Cola gathered a group of young students and models on a hilltop near Rome to sing what would become the most memorable U.S. ad ditty of the era: "I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony/ I'd like to buy the world a Coke and keep it company." The choristers got a flat $50 fee, while the commercial earned Coca-Cola thousands of approval letters and the effervescence of a song that sold more than 1 million copies...
...just like to point out that COCA is the first word in Coca-Cola. As in the phrase "Coca-Colonialism," in which zealous of financially sound institutions use media manipulation to do gross disservice to the world's poorer countries. As in money-backed misinformation. As in guerilla theatre." Or, more likely, as in "Lampoon pranksters with a political mask." Ah, excuse me, a politically-correct mask...
...scoreboard; Harvard was down by two touchdowns with less than two minutes to go. Hopes of a Harvard victory over Holy Cross had been dashed. As the clouds thickened over the Stadium, people began to file out. I took one last big gulp from my cup of Coca-Cola and prepared to leave. But as I stood up, something made me look down toward the sideline again...
...movie-production unit has been floundering for years. The most spectacular flop: Ishtar, the Dustin Hoffman-Warren Beatty desert lark released in 1987, which lost $25 million. Three top-management teams have come and gone since CEO David Begelman was forced out in 1978 amid a financing scandal. Coca-Cola, which bought the studio in 1982 and still controls 49% of its stock, fired British producer David Puttnam (Chariots of Fire) in 1987 after barely a year at the helm, during which he accomplished little besides alienating Hollywood's establishment. Dawn Steel, the current film chief, has had mixed results...