Word: mcdonaldization
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...college hockey's biggest stage, Harvard had as much a legitimate claim to part of the history of the Frozen Four as all the other great programs there. Scott Fusco with his 240 career points and McDonald, with his 225 deserved as much recognition among the college elite as Broten before them and Paul Kariya and Chris Drury, who won the award after them...
What then are we to make of Rodriguez's whimsical Spy Kids, the kind of innocuous, McDonald's-friendly family feature that's primarily geared towards a demographic that would be lucky to sneak a glimpse of From Dusk Till Dawn on HBO before their parents caught them? A kind of kiddie James Bond dropped into a surreal Willy Wonka-style world, Spy Kids ostensibly stars Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino as a pair of secret agents who decide to retire from the espionage game and settle into a quiet family life, but the real heroes are their plucky tykes...
...Losers ALAN GREENSPAN The god of the greenback cuts interest rates, but the U.S. stock market faints anyway. What do they want? Free loans from Japan? JOSE BOVE McSledgehammer? The anti-globalization Frenchman loses his appeal against a three-month jail sentence for wrecking a McDonald's RICHARD LI After eight years in the limelight, the telecom wunderkind admits he never graduated from Stanford. Is he really Li Ka-shing...
...several churches around the country that are starting businesses in an effort to make houses of worship more inviting. In Wells, Maine, the Messiah Christian Church has opened a fitness center, with memberships selling for $300 a year. And Houston's Brentwood Baptist Church will open a McDonald's in July, part of a new lifelong-learning center located next to the church. The burger joint, complete with a drive-through window, will be jointly owned by the church and one of its members. It will be managed by the church. "It's a holistic approach to reaching people," says...
...There is a growing number of children in our cities who are going to be the designated serfs of the information technology age," Moses said. "They're being trained to work in the plantations of our cities--McDonald...