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Nevertheless, its overseas expansion isn't likely to be a cakewalk. Krispy Kreme must avoid the mentality of "We like it in America, so you ought to like it too," says John Stanton, a food-industry expert at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. "If it tries to force the American doughnut down the throats of Europeans, it will fail." Stanton argues that Krispy Kreme should market its treats not merely as a fast food, but also as "getting a little bit of Americana." And while the local press in the U.S. eat up Krispy Kreme store-opening stories, European...
Saad's principal value now is the fact that he's a bin Laden and willing to follow his father's footsteps. If Osama dies, Saad is the symbol that the "struggle lives on," says French counter-terror expert Roland Jacquard. "If bin Laden lives, Saad remains symbolic of the generation of young mujehadin ready to step into the battle." The CIA agrees, which is why the agency is eagerly hunting for him. "Just as there's some symbolism to him being there to run the organization," says a senior U.S. intelligence official, "there's also some symbolism in picking...
...sole plaintiff in the case, has already spent more time in federal court that most of his fellow rising first-year students at Harvard Law School (HLS). He has worked at the HLS Berkman Center for Internet and Society for more than four years and previously gave expert testimony in a federal case about the constitutionality of the Child Internet Protection Act (CIPA), which mandated that libraries use Internet filters...
...line foreign sneakers. They are popular in rural China, but not in the country's wealthier coastal cities, where residents prefer foreign brands. Li Ning Sports "is an old brand and it certainly needs revitalization," says Xue Xu, a marketing professor at Peking University and an expert on domestic brands. Moreover, Xue says there is "danger ahead" because Nike has recently given endorsement contracts to Chinese basketball sensations Wang Zhizhi, who plays for the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA, and towering center Yao Ming, the No. 1 draft pick of the Houston Rockets...
...absence from the courtroom last week was a ploy by his lawyers to manufacture grounds for an appeal. And the sentence handed down is considerably softer than the life terms being served by his henchmen. "According to any legal logic," says Frans Hendra Winata, a Jakarta-based legal expert, "the mastermind behind the killing has to get a heavier verdict than the executioners." The court explained its decision with a list of mitigating factors: that Tommy had been depressed, had a family to support, that he was young and capable of reform. Either way, a court in Indonesia showed that...