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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...
...really think it's important to do things like this because the world is becoming so apathetic," said Christina T. Kiely '91, a member of Harvard's Committee on Central America (COCA...
...believe that the situation in El Salvador is absolutely appalling and the U.S. government has a lot to do with that," said COCA member Lynn E. Kelley...
...COCA member Katherine J. Plummer '91 said that COCA's growing membership indicated that campus awareness of Central American issues is growing. "Hopefully we can at least make a difference in educating people on campus," she said...
When Atlanta was chosen as the site of the 1996 Olympic Summer Games, officials in some rival cities grumbled about the inevitable triumph of "Coca-Cola capitalism." That complaint had a realistic edge: the soft- drink giant is based in Atlanta and strongly supported the hometown bid to the International Olympic Committee. Sensing a golden marketing opportunity, archrival Pepsi is suggesting to consumers in three losing cities -- Athens, Rome and Melbourne -- that they should register their displeasure at the checkout counter. In a newspaper advertisement in the Australian city, Pepsi declared, "If you don't like the I.O.C.'s choice...