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...Depending on whom you ask, this odd fusion of commentary and commerce is either a clever form of social activism or blatant moral hypocrisy - arresting contemporary art as easy exploitation. No one, for sure, can deny Toscani's ability to grab your attention. Shocking is again how many are describing his latest creation, a billboard and newspaper campaign for an Italian clothing line that features a stark photograph of a naked anorexic woman. On Friday, the image was summarily banned by Italy's advertising watchdog, citing infringements on the organization's code of conduct for exploiting an illness for publicity...
...after two straight losses to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Republicans turned to someone who was barely in their party. Utility executive Wendell Willkie had been a delegate to the 1924 Democratic Convention. But he criticized F.D.R.'s Tennessee Valley Authority as being a power grab by the Federal Government, and key Republicans, including TIME co-founder Henry Luce, thought he would be a fresh face for the GOP. Willkie had changed his party registration in 1939, but not all party regulars appreciated the interloper; Willkie's supposedly grass-roots campaign, quipped Washington hostess Alice Roosevelt Longworth, had sprung from...
...real issue is growth. The increase in cookie sales worldwide topped out at 3.1% in 2006. "There are cookies in every household in France," says Sacchi. "The only way to grow is to make every household eat more and more every year." Or grab more market share, which is often difficult and expensive. By contrast, Danone's fresh-dairy-product line (yogurt and milk-based desserts) grew 9.2% last year, with growth as high as 20% in Argentina, Mexico and Brazil, and 35% in Russia. Bottled water showed similarly high growth, at 14.8% in 2006. Numico grew nearly 12% last...
...Adams Art Space for a T-shirt decorating get-together, where students wrote messages on various items of clothing using markers and fabric paint. Clement D. Wright ’09, an organizer of the event, discussed the cult of the identi-tee. “Its fun to grab a T-shirt out of your drawer and say, ‘This talks about who I am and what I’m into,’” he says. Wright himself scrawled lines of poetry on his white T-shirt. Popular T-shirt messages can range...
Lehigh was lucky to beat Harvard in Bethlehem. It’ll take more than luck to grab a ‘W’ in New Haven...