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...starting in Russia with huge dreams. We have four stores and a shopping center, but we'll operate in the red for five to 10 years. We can take it, because we don't have [shareholders] coming to us every quarter asking for results. We have an important social mission there. Our [guiding principle] is to produce products for the majority of people. Hopefully, [we will help] the standard of life in Russia rise. In China we have only two stores, but we have lots of land to construct on, so I think we'll be rather big there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Furniture for Everyone | 1/23/2005 | See Source »

...ability to inquire into shows’ and movies’ content with extensive thoroughness or to censor controversial material within a given screening, and few if any undergrads who have taken advantage of these events would contend that this should prohibit the Council from fulfilling its mission and responsibility to provide such services to the student body.  When Fox Broadcasting Company contacted the Council to suggest that Harvard students be offered the chance to see episodes of the show “24” prior to their TV premiere and free of commercials, a qualification...

Author: By Matthew R. Greenfield, | Title: Council Takes Cultural Sensitivity Seriously | 1/21/2005 | See Source »

...offer is the full assortment of books...I believe we probably are the only store that has all the books laid out for all the courses,” with the exception of a few foreign language courses, Murphy said. “We view it as our mission...

Author: By Evan H. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Book Sellers To Expand Operation | 1/19/2005 | See Source »

...Powell, by contrast, offered the President a harsh assessment of Iraq, which only reinforced his marginalization within the administration. In the January 12 edition of the Financial Times, administration insiders told of a recent encounter in which President Bush asked Powell for his view on the progress of the mission in Iraq, to which Powell reportedly answered, "We're losing." According to the paper's sources, Powell was then asked to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rice Promises More of the Same | 1/19/2005 | See Source »

...WorldHelp, a missionary group founded by a Baptist disciple of Jerry Falwell's, which said it had received permission to move 300 orphans from Aceh to a Christian children's home in the capital city of Jakarta. After the government denied making such a deal, WorldHelp canceled its orphan mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Aid Breeds Suspicion | 1/18/2005 | See Source »

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