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...more criminals on the streets." The new mood troubles Mamdouh Baridi, a 24-year-old student born in Rotterdam of Moroccan parents. "The price of Dutch tolerance was patience, and their patience has run out," he says. Baridi has started an initiative called "Are You Afraid of Me?" to counter misunderstanding, but he thinks the gulf between cultures is deeper than even many liberal Dutch believe. "Holland has never been multicultural - it's multiculinary," he says. "They'll eat our food, but they want us to act like Dutch people." But Baridi says he isn't really worried. "The Dutch...
...elite club are Crest and Iams, the high-end pet food that P&G acquired in 1999 and has since turned into a mass-market brand. Driven by aging baby boomers and image-conscious youngsters, demand for skin-care products, cosmetics, shampoos and all manner of over-the-counter and prescription remedies is growing at about 4% to 6% a year--far faster than for commodities like laundry detergents and diapers. Hair coloring, in particular, a big business for Clairol, is becoming increasingly popular among teenagers, both girls and boys. Bruce Byrnes, president of global beauty and health care...
...billion-dollar pharmaceutical division is still a major question mark. As Duke University business professor Kevin Schulman argues, consumer products and drugs "have very different product life cycles. Compared with P&G's core business, pharmaceuticals is very risky." Some observers think Procter should stick to the over-the-counter business, leveraging its marketing savvy and retail relationships to help bigger pharma companies roll out nonprescription versions of their drugs, as it is doing with Astra Zeneca for its heartburn medication, Prilosec. Fortunately, at least for the moment, Lafley shouldn't have much need for that kind of remedy. --With...
...Taylor spent a happy year signing copies and giving interviews until her death in 1996 at age 93. Her slim, deft, 64-year-old attempt to stir a complacent America to the dangers brewing across the Atlantic sits today in bookstores around the world, often right at the checkout counter - a reminder that important messages can come in small envelopes...
...terrorists—for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America’s enemies, and pause to America’s friends.” Ashcroft’s attempt to associate dissent with terrorism and thereby stifle his critics runs counter to the view that open and rational deliberation should be the cornerstone of both the university community and the wider democratic state, no matter how unpopular a particular viewpoint...