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That's a message that until recently only a few companies had received. The Anglo-Dutch firm Unilever, for example, has been successfully selling household products in developing countries for more than a decade. Unilever's Vietnam subsidiary alone saw sales rise 23% last year to more than $300 million because of aggressive efforts to reach remote parts of the country through an extensive network of more than 100,000 independent sales representatives such as Hon. "People want to look good, whether they're rich or poor," explains Arijit Ghose, marketing manager for Unilever Vietnam. "I've been to tiny...
Coulter got on the honor roll as a kid, fenced and played lacrosse, went to Ramones and Grateful Dead shows (dozens of Dead shows--drug free, she claims). She grew up in a Reagan household and began to explore conservatism on her own at Cornell. There she discovered both liberals, who made her more conservative, and feckless conservatives in the "cigar-smoking, martini-drinking, oh-I-get-drunk-all-the-time libertarian mode," who made her more socially conservative. But there was a twist. In 1984, in an article for the conservative Cornell Review, Coulter attacked its editor for writing...
...moved slowly past the pontiff's body, and I was struck by the presence of Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, the pope's private secretary and the closest thing he had to family, who stood nearby, arms crossed, maintaining an intense vigil. I also saw the prefect of the papal household, Archbishop James Harvey originally of Milwaukee, sitting in a pew near the body...
Edwards, who himself grew up in a poverty-stricken household, called on Congress and state governments to increase the minimum wage, which he called a “national disgrace...
...decorous pictorial style, Wang calls on yet another culture, for Dim Sum is, in a way, You Can't Take It with You as it might have been adapted by the Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu. The eccentric Tam household is memorialized in painterly images: the wind shuddering through the curtains next to Mom's sewing machine, the rows of shoes ceremoniously placed by the front stairway. Tradition holds firm in this house, and those who dwell in it, like Geraldine and Uncle, must be modern martyrs to Mom's insistence on doing things the old way. Here is a life...