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Despite a cult following, Ben & Jerry's ice-cream business has been flat in the fat-free 1990s. Odak will take out a salary of $300,000 a year to dream up new products and turn the management team into what he calls "a well-oiled machine." It remains to be seen how well his approach will meld with a company whose Peace Pops bars help support causes like gun control. But investors foresaw more bang for their bucks: Ben & Jerry's stock closed at $12.75 a share on Friday, up $1.38 for the week...
...subjects such as political campaigning in 1956. The collection is certainly interesting from a photographical and technical perspective, but out of the three sections evokes the least emotional response to the prints. Without a more academic appreciation for photography, the pictures in this section seem oddly juxtaposed, bland and flat. Webb’s photograph in Uganda is one of the most pleasing, yet seems strangely out of place as one of two international photographs and one of just a few color photographs in the entire gallery. The most emotionally unsettling section is the “Social Museum Collection...
Concepts of imperialism and empire are “in flat contradiction to the traditional political self-definition of the U.S.A.,” Hobsbawm said, however, “there is no precedent for the global supremacy that the U.S. government is trying to establish...
...Gaiman Hardcover Nonfiction 1. Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2. Jesus and Yahweh Harold Bloom 3. Maimonides Sherwin B. Naland 4. Beyond Reason Robert Fisher 5. 1491 Charles Mann 6. Freakonomics Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner 7. Little History of the World E.H. Gombrich 8. The World Is Flat Thomas Friedman 9. Bait and Switch Barbara Ehrenreich 10. Lincoln’s Melancholy Joshua Shenk
...sound of people greeting my parents as “Dr. Torre and Dr. Torre,” I never doubted that I would eventually grow into my scrubs.But things didn’t happen as planned. I liked freshman biology a decent amount, but I found chem flat-out boring. Physics was painfully entertaining junior year, but I enjoyed history and English much, much more.So in my senior year, encouraged by success on the debate team, I opted for courses on postmodernism and contemporary political issues over Advanced Bio. I enjoyed writing and discussing ideas far more than learning...