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...Kennedy establishes that there are probably very few true race traitors in America—Kennedy himself admits that none come to mind—he fails to engage readers in the conversation of what his analysis really means for the black community. Throughout the book, his arguments fall flat because of his conception of Black America. If the requirement for citizenship in Black America is only a matter of choice—Kennedy asserts that people “ought to be permitted presumptively to enter and exit racial categories at their choosing, even if the choices made clash...
...early and literally changing from my CIA clothes to my kitchen clogs and running over to the restaurant kitchen or the bakery twice a week,” she says. “By the end of the time I could just open the convention oven and put the flat of my hand on the cake and I could just tell by the feel of it when it was done...
...well-being." Take your alarm clock, for one. Instead of a loud buzzer jolting you out of bed, Philips wants to sell you a wake-up light that mimics a sunrise in slowly coaxing you out of slumber. Consumer lifestyle means going beyond "just a company that does flat-screen TVs," Kleisterlee says...
...obligated to think that way, especially when it comes to big-ticket items like TVs. Philips' LCD-TV business is losing money in the insanely competitive U.S. market, under pressure from the likes of Sony and Samsung. Globally, profit margins in the $15 billion consumer-electronics business are flat-screen thin. With TVs accounting for about 60% of sales at the former CE division, "if you look at [Philips'] strategic targets--stable growth and higher profitability," says SNS Securities' analyst Victor Bareo, "then the core business of consumer electronics is not really a good...
...hugs the Ohio River is a far less populous slice of Appalachia that owes more to Kentucky than Cleveland. Southwest Ohio, anchored by businesslike Cincinnati, is Republican country, where George W. Bush won huge margins and narrowly captured the state in 2004. That leaves white-collar Columbus and table-flat northwest Ohio, the reliable battlegrounds in both primaries and general elections...