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...during the past two centuries, much of the post-colonial world is multilingual—following U.S. news, watching President Bush’s speeches and developing first-hand opinions about America. Much of America, however, remains proudly English-only, especially proud of exporting its media along with its Coca-Cola. We often forget that the world is getting our message all too well—and analyzing it while we sit mesmerized by flashy graphics on Fox News, oblivious to what they have to say. As we begin the twenty-first century we are leaving the era of military...
...lead an mass of 100,000 people to Juarez, Mexico, where hundreds of women have vanished mysteriously only to reappear as dismembered corpses. “They are abducted, I know horrendous sex crimes are done to them, and all that is left is bones, as discarded as a Coca-Cola bottle,” she says...
...Byron Wien, market strategist at Morgan Stanley, predicts that a surge in the prices of stocks with a yield will be one of the big surprises of 2004 and that the year's winners will include Pfizer, Wyeth, Bristol-Myers, GE, Microsoft (it started paying a dividend last year), Coca-Cola and Altria. Any number of mutual funds focus on dividend payers. Among the best are Fidelity Dividend Growth, T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth and (if you invest through a broker) Capital Income Builder from the American Funds group. Don't bet too much on any one theme. Keep large...
...released statement Coca-Cola has said that the allegations are “completely false…nothing more than a shameless effort to generate publicity.” The bottlers also deny any involvement in the killings, although one wonders why random paramilitary groups would go around the country murdering union leaders against the wishes of the companies they are seeking contracts from. Union leaders such as Adolfo Munera, who just a week after winning a case in Colombia’s highest court forcing a Coke bottler to re-hire him after he was cleared of bogus criminal...
With help from the 80,000 activists in Mumbai this week, the combined boycotts could get the international support they need to be effective against transnational corporations such as Coca-Cola. Coke contracts have come under fire at Columbia, NYU, University of Vermont and University of California, Berkeley to name a few, and contracts have already been terminated at Bard College, Lake Forest College and at bars and colleges in Ireland. So far, Harvard’s involvement has been limited to bringing Colombian workers to campus to speak about the repression but Madeleine S. Elfenbein...