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...move to license the Coca-Cola name on designer clothing, which began badly last year, now seems to be humming along nicely. Most important, Coca- Cola is reaping benefits from its biggest image change of all, a controversial $1.4 billion leap into movies and television. As the love feast begins this week in Atlanta, the company is planning a vigorous expansion of the overseas operations that have long made Coke's red-and-white logo a worldwide emblem of U.S. consumer culture...
...fortunate ones can scarcely enjoy their energy feast, however, without noticing the look of distress on the faces of their neighbors. For the same plunge that benefits oil users has battered the regions that produce petroleum. In Saudi Arabia, an Egyptian worker is likely to lose his high- paying job and return home to poverty. A Mexico City family may no longer be able to afford meat and vegetables because government food subsidies have been slashed. A well-drilling entrepreneur in Oklahoma could face bankruptcy and the loss of his business to creditors. A bank loan officer in California...
...community has talking days every Sunday and major saints' feast days. On those days, the monks talk at one meal and have a reader at the other, while on Sundays, they converse during both lunch and dinner. In another blow to the monastic stereotype, readings aren't quite what you'd expect. "We read the autobiography of Anna Russell the other week. Very racy," says Father Dalby, who at age 86 is one of the senior members of the community. "Sometimes we have a more spiritual book, like some of the writings of Thomas Merton," he adds...
...simultaneously, Harvard will hone its munching skills and continue to feast on teams like the Terriers...
...stupendous combat between death and life is experienced by each human being," the archbishop said in his traditional message delivered on the biggest Christian feast day of the year...