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...anyone really want to see Charlie Brown kick that football (thanks for the reflexes, Lucy)? Would Ernie Banks, the smiling Mr. Cub chortling "Let's play two," be as beloved if the Cubs were winners? Is the sports world really a better place since the Boston Red Sox overcame their "curse" and in 2004 finally won the World Series...
...cover has a humorous headline about everyone’s second favorite: FEMA. Although you probably can’t read it from where you sit now, one of the other articles on the cover reads, “Nation’s Lack Of Preparedness Blamed On Cub Scouts.” It goes without saying that if we can’t make fun of ourselves, “they” will have won. Your younger brother who is just starting to pass judgments on greater things than the teenage girls he goes to school with would...
...pride in question consists of Zill, the male who still remembers sunsets from the days of being wild; Safa, the older, wizened female; Noor, the younger female who dreams of her freedom; and Ali, the cute cub. As in a Disney movie, the animals have been blessed with the ability to speak to one another, along with the superior intelligence that usually accompanies that ability. However, suspending one's disbelief around such conceits comes more easily with children's entertainment than with a serious consideration of adult themes. I find myself thinking things like, "Does an animal that can speak...
Fast-food-style marketing tricks, such as silver burger wrappers and plastic salad shakers, cost a little extra, but they boost sales. (When the shakers ran out at the middle school, salad sales dropped from 30 a day to 0.) The cafeterias resemble local eateries too. The Cub's Den at Shawnee Middle School looks just like a food court at a mall. Taylor has similarly revamped the serving areas at the high school--South of the Border serves Tex-Mex; Grandma's Corner has home-style cooking. Marketing is a necessity. "We're a business," Taylor says. "If your...
...rent a small office and employ an Atlanta printing press to publish the paper every week, as well as offer a $20 weekly salary to the paper’s reporters. The first issues included a full page of photographs and six pages of news content served up by cub reporters working throughout Alabama, which, after the Selma marches earlier that year, had become a flash point of civil rights activity...