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...Area and haute couture have in common? At least one Harvard student is trying to find a connection.Originally conceived by Nathan P. Gunawan ’07, “Identities: A Fashion Show” attempts to explore the various facets of Asian-American culture through the medium of fashion. The fashion show, organized by the Asian American Association (AAA), will take place on Saturday, April 7 at 9 pm in the Lowell House dining hall.DIVERSITY AND DISTINCTION“What we wanted to do was highlight Asian-American culture in a different way than what had been done...
...consider your imprisonment to be a politically motivated tactic to silence dissenters, especially bloggers, who now have an immediate and broad global distribution medium for their points of view...
...allows companies to more easily place text, display and video ads on mobile-phone websites in 19 countries. Also leading the way are blue-chip brands including BMW, McDonald's and Proctor & Gamble, companies that are experimenting with mobile-marketing campaigns to find cost-effective ways to tap the medium. When BMW launched new models in China last year, it tried mobile-video ads as well as downloadable screen "wallpaper" and ringtones. "The click-through rates were unbelievable," says BMW marketing manager Alan Yang. "It's the most effective brand-building tool we've tried." To promote its bB minivan...
There's no better textbook example of the Web reinvigorating an old-school medium than the humble comic strip. (Um, besides porn, that is.) Comic strips in newspapers are dying. They're starved for space, crushed down to a fraction of their original size. They're choked creatively by ironfisted syndicates and the 1950s-era family values that newspapers impose. But on the Web there are no space restrictions. Need I add that the same goes for family values? Now that DIY ad serving is cheap and easy, cartoonists can go into business for themselves online, and syndicates and newspapers...
...Oaxaca the number is 38,000, according to AMUCSS. Mexico's big banks have failed to help. The few large banks that make up Mexico's financial oligopoly have all but shut out small business with exorbitant interest rates and prohibitive red tape - despite the fact that small- and medium-size enterprises employ most Mexicans. Migrants send as much as $25 billion home annually, "but there is virtually no engine to receive it, invest it and turn it into jobs," says AMUCSS director Isabel Cruz. "That's the ugly paradox of Mexico...