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...graphic artist in Chicago. "We have this theory that between Indians, it's more like two degrees of separation rather than the usual six." So firms show up at desi events and subtly introduce the message: We're a part of your community too. Wells Fargo sponsored a Bollywood concert in Cupertino, Calif., in June, setting up a table in the lobby and dispensing brochures touting its new money-transfer service to India, an initiative aimed at stealing business from Western Union. "It's not just about advertising," says Michelle Scales, director of the diverse growth segment at Wells Fargo...
...Saturday, Destiny's Child and more than 100 other acts sang in front of more than 1.6 million concertgoers--and a TV audience of over 2 billion (the shows are also available on AOL)--for Live 8, a 10-city music extravaganza that organizer Bob Geldof called "the greatest concert ever." The free concerts in all the G-8 countries, plus South Africa, were meant to raise not money but awareness of poverty in Africa ahead of this week's G-8 summit in Scotland. Of course, it's not up to rock stars to decide whether the global antipoverty...
...Southern Ontario’s cottage country has a population of 125,000 and is largely undistinguished among the hundreds of other communities of its size that dot the landscape just north of the 49th parallel. Except that tomorrow, Barrie will host Canada’s Live 8 concert, featuring performances by Bryan Adams, Céline Dion, Gordon Lightfoot, the Barenaked Ladies, and the Tragically Hip, among others...
Tomorrow’s Live 8 concert will pack Barrie, Ontario, and will likely make a long-term economic difference for the region. For a few hours, perhaps, many Canadians will think seriously about foreign aid, debt cancellation, and “trade justice” for the first time. But when the music stops, Prime Minister Paul Martin will be left with a choice: finally commit to the standard set 36 years ago by Lester Pearson, or remain, with the United States and Russia, one of the three G8 countries not to make such an important commitment...
...same way with Audiard's characters. It's probably safe to say that there has never been a hood who aspired to the concert stage. But the child of a roughneck father and an elegant mother who has lived an ambivalent, ultimately untriumphant life as a result is not unfamiliar. Out of a borrowed and preposterous premise, Audiard has fashioned a film that is more haunting--and more compellingly watchable--than it has any right...