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...smash, with 25 million visitors a year, but Euro Disney, based near Paris, has been a financial sinkhole. Earlier this year, Euro Disney finalized a $2 billion restructuring plan, which included new capital and loan concessions, to rescue the operation. Among the park's problems have been cultural faux pas that have turned off its European audience. When Euro Disney opened, for example, restaurants wouldn't serve wine, an affront even to the French soil it was built...
Noting that she is fascinated by the draw of Jon Stewart’s faux-news production, The Daily Show, Hsia remains committed to reporting the facts and keeping the world informed...
...Baby boomers were beginning to migrate from cities to rural areas, and these new rec farmers were spending $5.5 billion annually on supplies. "Lifestyle" positioning demanded big changes in merchandise. Farmers raise livestock. Lifestyle farmers have pets and ride horses for fun. Farmers buy feed in quantity and cheaply. Faux farmers buy pet "food" and spare no expense. So TSC stocked up on equine products, bird supplies and pet chow. Out went the cheaper-by-the-ton stuff. In came fancier foods like Hill's Science Diet...
...first of many public faux pas committed by University President Lawrence H. Summers. It was 2002, and Harvard’s new figurehead was widely criticized for equating divestment from Israel to one of many “actions that are anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent.” And, as we are familiar with the reaction to Summers’ controversial comments—and the uproar they can stir—a debate was borne, inciting some serious discussion about a controversial and complicated issue. Though we disagreed with Summers’ conflation...
...WHAT'S YOUR WORST SKATING-FASHION FAUX PAS? There was a scary neon movement in the '80s, and I was a participant in that. If there's anyone I blinded with my outfits back then, I'd like to apologize...