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...whole lot of other Hispanic Americans. The Hispanic population is growing faster than any other group in the U.S., and its buying power is soaring too. By most accounts, P&G is leading the pack in the race to grab its business. Competitors like Colgate-Palmolive, which imported fabric softener Suavitel from Latin America, and Unilever, with grass-roots campaigns like storefront tastings for brands such as Hellman's mayonnaise and Rag?? spaghetti sauce in Hispanic neighborhoods, are also active. But P&G spent $107 million on Spanish-media advertising in the first nine months of 2004, tops...
...Falluja’s dazed refugees trickle back to the rubble of their possessions, they will be choked by the cold grip of American freedom. Indefinitely parted from their livelihoods, denied their history, ripped from the fabric of a vibrant society, and separated from the irreplaceable life of a city, refugees will have earned a brutal freedom to start anew, from nothing. The freedom to part their arms and legs at checkpoints, the freedom to watch idly as Americans rebuild their city according to plans drawn in Washington, and, of course, the freedom to submit to a war for liberation...
Perhaps I was letting nostalgia for traditions I blindly followed as a child obscure my support of liberal sensitivity. And as I came across emanations of classic conservative quotes–mostly in the spirit of “Political correctness is eroding our social fabric!” and “Put the ‘Christ’ back in Christmas!”–I retreated back to my liberal core and assured myself that these creepy conservatives were just using Christmas to sidle religiosity into school curricula. Moreover, I decided, the article?...
...months right after Sept. 11, when smoke was still rising over the ruins of the Twin Towers, there were people ready to write the obituary for skyscrapers. Tall buildings were too inviting as targets for terrorism, too disruptive to the urban fabric and not even particularly profitable, since so much of the rentable floor space was taken up by elevator shafts. The only clients still interested in building them were in nations that wanted a symbol of their arrival as a contender in the global market, mostly in Asia's Pacific Rim. The honor of having the world's tallest...
...upholstering a sofa that's covered (permanently) in plastic. But designers are dusting off traditional patterns like toile and splashing them on wallpaper and trench coats. For his spring 2005 collection for Burberry, designer Christopher Bailey drew inspiration from an English classic: blue-and-white Wedgwood ceramics. The French fabric company Pierre Frey recently introduced Hong Kong , a toile depicting its namesake city, including skyscrapers and traffic jams. And the Glasgow-based design firm Timorous Beasties' toile honors the company's hometown with a tableau of familiar local spots. "I thought it would be great to do a toile that...