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...just such a paper trail that enabled Marilyn Jo Drake, the auditor in Iowa's Pottawattamie County, to suss out an anomaly in a county-recorder race she was monitoring in June. She noticed that a 20-year incumbent was being beaten 10 to 1 by an unknown newcomer. Sensing a glitch, Drake cross-checked the electronic results against the totals on the paper vote and discovered the veteran was actually well ahead. The problem, it turned out, was the way the candidates' names had been ordered and coded into the access cards that activated the machines, which were made...
...middle class to embrace wine. Such consumers splurge on luxury cars, clothes and homes, but stick with traditional beer and spirits. "There are at least 10 wine festivals per year in Johannesburg, and you can count on one hand the number of people of color who attend them," says Marilyn Cooper, who runs the local branch of the Cape Wine Academy and is one of the festival's organizers. "We have got to get our black population drinking wine." Talk to some of the locals at the festival, and there are encouraging signs of change. Two years ago, Thami Xaba...
...Billboard charts to #18. This is the person who in the same summer said that she cries when she hears her music, told British GQ that she will not have sex for a year, and proclaimed herself to be this generation’s iconic blonde à la Marilyn Monroe. —Staff writer Emily G.W. Chau can be reached at egchau@fas.harvard.edu...
...Charlize is re-creating the Marilyn Monroe image in those Christian Dior ads, and Chanel's Nicole Kidman ad is like a mini Moulin Rouge. They're playing characters, which is why these examples work," says Raul Martinez, CEO and creative director of AR Media. "As long as the concept is on brand, you're O.K. And we've seen what happens when it doesn't work...
...Reeves pretty much where it finds him, as a man who wanted to be a movie legend but ended up as the subject of movie gossip. That talk has always been minor - we're not discussing the industrial-strength suppositions impressionable people have created around the similar passing of Marilyn Monroe - yet it has also been persistent. That's because of the crude, inherent irony in it. Neither the Man of Steel nor the man playing him is supposed to have a rubbery psyche. Indeed, he's not supposed to have a psyche...