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...break into the highly competitive U.S. wine market. With an Aussie Vineyards car and Australian driver Marcos Ambrose, the company wanted to leverage a fan base known for being fiercely brand loyal. NASCAR gave them access to large volume retailers and distributors that they were able to network with in corporate entertaining suites at tracks all over the country. The strategy paid off late last year when Aussie wines secured valuable shelf space in Kroger Company stores and a few other chains. "By exposing ourselves to the distributors and retailers who are also NASCAR fans, we were able...
...after an electrical short circuit caused a fire in the power supply unit, FAS Computer Services spokeswoman Elizabeth Hess said in a statement sent via e-mail. Hess could not be reached for comment over the weekend. The fire caused disruption to the FAS e-mail, Web, database, and network services, which were down for several hours after power was cut to the server room. According to Hess, the systems were restored by 9:10 p.m. that evening. Megan M. Roberts ’10, who was in a life sciences lab when the alarm went off, said...
...Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), an organization seeking the repeal of the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, was honored with the second annual Gay and Lesbian Legal Advocacy Leadership Award on Saturday...
...where maybe we are making some progress.” Bloomberg received the Pathfinder Award for blazing the trail for technology-enabled improvements in America’s most populous city; his initiatives as mayor have included the NYC 311 Citizen Service Center and a new wireless public safety network. “The city and the mayor have done amazingly important things in terms of technology,” said Jerry E. Mechling ’65, a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School and faculty chair of the Leadership for a Networked World program, which administered...
Being accepted into Sweden is relatively simple compared with what it takes to actually get there. Iraqis say the odyssey north typically costs $10,000 per person and involves relying on a network of nameless smugglers and middlemen. Most Iraqis flee first to Jordan; from there smugglers arrange flights to Istanbul, where it is easy to find illegal European Union passports--red passports, as the Iraqis call them, which contain the refugees' real photos but use other people's names. "Daniel," 23, a Christian Iraqi student sitting in a Stockholm caf, said he bought a fake Iraqi passport...