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...have been plying college-bound kids (and their parents) with targeted catalogs and emails, setting up gift registries, giving student discounts, even accosting kids on campus with flyers and freebies--all in an effort to win dorm dollars. The National Retail Federation, a trade group, says back to college--distinct from K12-oriented back to school--is the second biggest shopping season, behind the Christmas-Hanukkah-Kwanzaa holiday triple play. And while Mom and Dad pony up plenty of cash, students are, on average, spending more than $600 of their money on the latest and greatest must-haves, with...
...debaters to focus on facts. The debate tomorrow night will focus only on foreign policy issues, and provide the American people with the opportunity to examine each candidate’s view of the world, and America’s place therein. In this respect, President Bush holds a distinct advantage over John Kerry as the result of an accomplished foreign policy record over the past four years...
...made it easier for extremists to associate democratization with chaos and occupation and to paint moderate reformers working for democracy within their own countries as stooges for Western imperialism. Moreover, as insurgents gain control over ever-larger swaths of Iraq, and the CIA reports that civil war is a distinct possibility, are we honestly expected, as Bush suggested this week, to view the Iraq war as a prototype for “the advance of democracy” in other regions of the world? With 145,000 troops bogged down in the Iraqi quagmire, does Bush plan to invade...
Steven G. Catalano, HUPD spokesperson, said there was one distinct string of incidents which explain part of the increase—a group of individuals stole approximately 26 LCD projectors—but said he cannot pinpoint the reason for the broader trend...
...Although the three legends had distinct styles, each trained his lens on the daily life of the everyday man caught in a society in flux. For Evans, this led him toward the picturesque but poor side of a restive Havana in 1933, as well as late-'20s New York City. Though the city was booming, Evans was filled with ambivalence about a metropolis where billboards and skyscrapers jarred with the lowlife of the city's drifters. Torn Movie Poster, for example, captures Evans' wider sense of national doom: a mass-produced image tarnished with decay. The exhibition also shows...