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...China has often seemed a land of dashed dreams for foreign companies eager to sell to 1.3 billion mainland consumers. But for KFC, this frontier has proved unexpectedly bountiful. Colonel Sanders, the goateed (and quite dead) Southern gentleman who is KFC's founder and marketing icon, rules the country's fast-food roost. Since opening its first mainland outlet in Beijing in 1987, the fried-chicken chain has gone on to become the most recognized global brand among urban consumers in China, according to an ACNielsen survey in 1999. KFC says more than 2 million Chinese eat at its stores...
...combine both in a new, ?lite military corps? Call them Extreme Peacekeepers or the Freedom Corps or whatever, but seek out the sort of people who aren't normally inclined to join the military-idealistic college students who hope to become doctors, lawyers, politicians or engineers and are eager to do something noble (and burnish their r?sum?s) by serving their country...
Puff Daddy may have been far too eager to let the world know that—when he wasn’t implicating himself in gun shoot-outs or dating Jennifer Lopez—he was at an altar with a rather corpulent black man on the cross. But regardless of Combs’ personal stake in his exploitation of Biggie’s death, it was an exploitation that produced positive consequences. The East Coast-West Coast rap rivalry and its participants suddenly came into the national spotlight, out of the manipulative hands of hip-hop rags that...
...full privileges to not only get food, but continue getting food until at least 7:20 p.m. If there had been a clear cap on when anyone could get food, whether it wereseconds or not, then Dartboard might understand. After all, there are shifts that dining hall employees are eager to leave, and having yet another undergraduate asking to go in past the designated meal time is a burden...
...months before I left for college, my mother bought a book called Letting Go. Eager to facilitate the split, I read this survival guide designed for parents whose children are preparing to leave home. My mother, on the other hand, was never able to make it past the first few pages or, for that matter, to “let go.” But three years have passed, and my parents and their new “children” are now preparing to move three hours away to a new house. That’s outside what...