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...bank account, says John Caskey, a professor of economics at Swarthmore and expert on the "unbanked." The company has already punctured the high cost of check cashing, which hits the unbanked hardest, by offering the service in its stores. Caskey says that with the right mix of low-cost services--bill payment, money orders, check cashing and basic savings accounts--Wal-Mart could serve an overlooked, overcharged population already in its stores...
...Chinese perceptions of the United States are deeply ambivalent," says Minxin Pei, China program director at the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "They mix resentment and admiration, fear with respect, jealousy with the desire to emulate." So long as that volatile mixture constitutes a central, "brittle part of the national psyche," says Pei, there's always the possibility that these emotions will boil over...
...were an immigrant from Guatemala, an Indian who grew up in London, a Japanese-American out of North Carolina, a Philippine-Chinese-American, and several very blond students from the American heartland, including a white supremacist who defended her family's racism in front of the class. This extraordinary mix of students strikes me as a perfect representation of America, a land where a boy raised at the back of an Indian grocery store in London easily started a friendship with a boy from Morning Sun, Iowa, population...
...outdoor displays each day. TAB is conducting its own industry-funded study to measure the likelihood that a person passing an ad will see it. It's not all that surprising, then, that advertisers such as Unilever, Coca-Cola and McDonald's are reconsidering billboards in their ad mix. "Outdoor now has a place in the media-planning process," says Wally Kelly, ceo of CBS Outdoor. Coca-Cola in the U.S. is back outdoors full throttle this month to advertise its new beverage, Coca-Cola Blak, and its new global slogan, "The Coke side of life." According to senior vice...
...wish. Arkadin was taken from Welles, its convoluted form ironed out and the result renamed Confidential Report. At least seven versions of the film exist, none to his specifications. This superb Criterion DVD pack offers three variations, including a new "complete" assembly. In any form, it's a rococo mix of Citizen Kane and The Third Man: a study of a rich man's power and isolation amid the seedy, greedy flotsam of postwar Europe. In a way, this is a do-it-yourself Kane. It's the viewer's job to sleuth for the real Arkadin--a film that...