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...perhaps the biggest lesson companies can learn from word of mouthers is that there's an unmet social need among consumers to feel that their opinions matter. "They care what you have to say," says Carol Engels, a Vocalpoint mother in suburban Chicago. "That's what I like most." Smart companies find that when they listen, they also get a shot at steering the conversation...
...Magic Position,” evoking all the subtlety of a cabaret. When Björk’s video began with a close-up on a rusty faucet, we had no clue that seconds later she would be prancing about with uniformed auto mechanics. Thus, Lesson One: surprise us. Music videos ought to have tricks. Songs are brief, and the audience should be riveted for all four minutes. Next, we see Wolf slouching along, creating weird body shapes with his limp form. On the other hand, adorable Björk charmed, unabashedly leaping about while wearing a dress like...
...showing off what they know and pretending to know more than they do.Books can provide entrance into cultured circles the same way obscure bands can help you be a hipster or knowledge of Britney’s disdain for underwear can establish your pop culture credentials. Perhaps the best lesson to take from Bayard is not how to bullshit, but rather how to read in a world where everyone is bullshitting. —Staff writer Madeline K.B. Ross can be reached at mross@fas.harvard.edu...
...fifth year in a row. Over 6,000 school children have seen the exhibit, which presents the thesis of a quilt code. There are also smaller lectures taking place at local libraries, churches and quilt guilds all over the country. The story has also ended up in lesson plans and textbooks (TIME For Kids even published an article about Hidden in Plain View in a middle school art book published by McGraw Hill in 2005). Recently the issue got national attention when plans in New York City to include a quilt element in a Central Park Memorial statue of Frederick...
Really? What is that one chance? He offers no specific vision, only this general yet urgent endorsement of unification. But the reader should forgive Mak this halfhearted attempt to pull a foreign-affairs moral from his history lesson. The book is not a call for unity, but a call for peace. It is a testament to Mak's warmth and skill as a writer that even in a chronicle of unrelenting barbarity he has portrayed a humanity worth saving...