Word: marcus
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...give advertisers fresh options for reaching audiences. During soccer's World Cup last summer, for example, Adidas used real-time scores, highlight reels and games to lure thousands of fans to a website set up for mobile-phone access. "Our target audience was males ages 17 to 25," says Marcus Spurrell, Adidas regional new-media manager for Asia. "Their mobiles are always on, always in their pocket-you just can't ignore [cell phones] as an advertising tool." Says Geoffrey Handley, director of new business for The Hyperfactory, a Shanghai-based ad agency focused on handsets: mobile-phone marketing...
...both sides of the issue aimed at the public sphere, in the Academy at least, science and religion have, for the most part, reached an uneasy truce—by segregating themselves, utterly and totally. But a recent article in The New York Times about the case of Marcus R. Ross, a doctoral student in geosciences at the University of Rhode Island (URI), may foreshadow the crumbling of this truce. Ross submitted a scientifically correct thesis about a creature that lived 65 million years ago. His work was deemed scientifically “impeccable” by his dissertation adviser...
...reason that the department is constantly able to attract a steady stream of literary luminaries.In the past, creative writing courses have been taught by literary heavy hitters such as Seamus Heaney. Courses are also taught by members of other departments who have extensive experience in their field. This year Marcus Stern, associate director of the American Repertory Theater, is teaching a screenwriting workshop.The renowned director has found teaching creative writing courses Harvard to be both rewarding and challenging, albeit markedly different from the theater courses he teaches. “It’s a more expansive and in-depth...
...credit to Brown, they were energized and had good momentum coming out of the locker room.” The turnovers forced by the Bears during that spurt were just three of 19 the Crimson committed on the night against a tough defense. Senior guard Marcus Becker and the rest of the Brown defense pressured sophomore guard Drew Housman nearly every time he brought the ball up the court. A week after scoring a career-high 33 points at Princeton, Housman finished the game with 16 points and tied a career-high with seven assists, but also had six turnovers...
...important role in the Christianization of Jamaican and other West Indian blacks. Black Americans were also open to the inspiration of black immigrants: W.E.B. DuBois's father was Haitian; James Weldon Johnson's mother, Bahamian. One of the first mass movements of African Americans was led by a Jamaican, Marcus Garvey, in the '20s. An impressive number of black leaders and civil rights icons--Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm X, Shirley Chisholm, Louis Farrakhan, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, to list a few--were all first- or second-generation immigrants. Before them, West Indian leaders paved the way toward involvement with city politics...