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...added that Allston might represent a key frontier for expansion...
...hope that Lincoln awakened at Gettysburg was the same hope extinguished on the day John F. Kennedy died. The assassination ended the promise of the New Frontier. Unlike Lincoln, Kennedy was struck down before he accomplished his mission. That mission remains unfulfilled even today. My generation still searches for a leader who inspires us the way he inspired our parents, who engages us in political discourse, and who brings us all closer to the spirit of the nation...
Harvard Right to Life’s controversial publicity campaign, which has been waged on entryway bulletin boards and in a display outside the Science Center, has moved on to a new frontier: door-boxes...
...from a nuclear war he believed was ever more likely. "The most important thing about John Kennedy," his biographer Richard Reeves says, "is that he thought he was going to die young, and he could not wait his turn." Behind J.F.K.'s Eros--the skirt chasing, the virile New Frontier rhetoric, the pledge to shoot a big phallic rocket at the moon by decade's end--was Thanatos...
...China has often seemed a land of dashed dreams for foreign companies eager to sell to 1.3 billion mainland consumers. But for KFC, this frontier has proved unexpectedly bountiful. Colonel Sanders, the goateed (and quite dead) Southern gentleman who is KFC's founder and marketing icon, rules the country's fast-food roost. Since opening its first mainland outlet in Beijing in 1987, the fried-chicken chain has gone on to become the most recognized global brand among urban consumers in China, according to an ACNielsen survey in 1999. KFC says more than 2 million Chinese eat at its stores...