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...Yesterday, we switched over to a pure get-out-the-vote effort,” says Jamie Burnett, a operative for President Bush’s re-election campaign, during a pep talk Saturday to 20 Harvard Republican Club members aboard a yellow school bus in a strip-mall parking...
...Nike phenomenon is challenging Confucian-style deference to elders too. At the Nike shop in a ritzy Shanghai shopping mall, Zhen Zhiye, 22, a dental hygienist in a miniskirt, persuades her elderly aunt, who has worn only cheap sneakers that she says "make my feet stink," to drop $60 on a new pair. Zhen explains the "fragrant possibilities" of higher-quality shoes and chides her aunt for her dowdy ways. Her aunt settles on a cross trainer. For most of China's history, this exchange would have been unthinkable. "In our tradition, elders pass culture to youth," says researcher Zhang...
...According to Jeffries, the idea is to make customers feel as though they are in a unique private home, even if they are actually at the mall. Ruehl No. 925 is aimed at women and men ages 22 to 30 and includes casual sports-wear, jeans, accessories, intimate apparel and outerwear. Then there are quirkier products, such as a fragrance that comes in a bottle shaped like an ink flask and limited-edition art T shirts that are signed by a different artist every month...
...spot them by their cars - late-model Toyota Avalons, Peugeots, Mercedes and BMWs issued to Baathist leaders, with Iraqi license plates. These former officials from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, the mukhabarat (Iraqi secret police) and other parts of the Iraqi state apparatus cruise Amman's streets, roam its malls and enjoy its restaurants. "Two years ago, they brought us misery," Jamal says. "Now they're living it up in exile in Amman and we have to face them." Some of these same people harassed him and made it difficult for him to find work in Iraq. He'd love...
...wrought-iron fence and antiqued windows. Inside, antique books (all for sale) and a long gallery filled with art convey an artistic sensibility. According to Jeffries, the idea is to make customers feel as though they are in a unique private home, even if they are actually at the mall. Ruehl No. 925 is aimed at women and men ages 22 to 30 and includes casual sports-wear, jeans, accessories, intimate apparel and outerwear. Then there are quirkier products, such as a fragrance that comes in a bottle shaped like an ink flask and limited-edition art T shirts that...