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Neuromarketing has its share of critics. Gary Ruskin, executive director of Commercial Alert, a nonprofit group that Ralph Nader set up to monitor commercial forces in society, sent letters to the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee in July 2004 calling for an investigation into the practice. Commercial Alert says it fears neuromarketers could "peer into our brains" and control our buying behavior. Joshua Freedman of FKF says such fears are misplaced. "Some people view this like Frankenstein and brain control, but I think that science, by trying to understand what goes on in human brains, should be very freeing by helping...
More than 2,000 people, actually. That's how many wannabes tried out in Baghdad for Iraq Star, the new Iraqi version of American Idol. "We're trying to help ease the burden and troubles of our people," said producer Wadia Nader. The show, watched nightly by about 50% of Iraqi TV viewers, isn't flashy, with spartan sets and no studio audience. But it does have Simon Cowell's Iraqi alter ego, Muhammad Hadi, whose slams have a local accent. His dis of one hopeful's off-key song about a hummingbird: "Slaughtered bird is masculine. You kept saying...
Although students flocked to support both major candidates, Harvard remains a blue-state school—73 percent of voting undergraduates supported Kerry, while less than a fifth voiced support for Bush, according to an Institute of Politics (IOP) poll taken four days before the election. Independent candidate Ralph Nader earned three percent of College support...
...should be said that the behavior at the Forum when Feith spoke was neither unique nor the most egregious example of poor behavior. Last year, Ralph Nader was unduly derided throughout a speech he gave at the Forum. This in no way excuses the actions of those who behaved abysmally when Feith spoke; rather, given the experience with Nader and previous speakers, the IOP should have been forewarned of what was coming. Furthermore, many students came away from Feith’s speech frustrated because they believed he had faced softball questions, and this certainly contributed to the unruly atmosphere...
Judge Teresa Carr Deni ruled that Nader Ali, whom witnesses saw beat Lea F. Sullivan ’01 with a baseball bat after she emerged from a Philadelphia Whole Foods store, is fit to participate in a preliminary hearing set for March...