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...packing--but don't confuse There with a video game. Nobody's keeping score. It's more like a massive playdate. Everything from the cute Toy Story--style graphics to the clothing stores where characters can dress up in the latest fashions (provided courtesy of Levi's and Nike) is designed to give you something to chat about...
...millions who support Moore expect his politics to come from the far-far Left, not the Clintonian middle ground, and rightfully so. This is the same guy who exposed and humiliated General Motors C.E.O. Roger Smith as a depraved corporate crook in Roger and Me and publicly lambasted Nike C.E.O. Phil Knight as a supporter of child labor in The Big One. This is a guy whose entire career has been defined by an unabashed and ruthless brand of Leftist principle (often at the expense of unprepared corporate officials and conservative bureaucrats), someone who represents moral outrage and progressive idealism...
...despite the glory of Nike-sponsored athletic teams and school cafeterias Brought to You by the Coca-Cola Corporation, I am not convinced that the benefits of growing up in these Branded United States of America outweigh the unique experience of a childhood really spent in places like Kingman, Arizona or Waco, Texas—my father’s childhood hometowns...
Since that day, I wanted Harvard much like I wanted any other brand: Gap jeans, Nike sneakers and anything else that I saw on SBTB and the commercials in between. For a girl who watched a lot of television, Harvard was a ticket into a faraway land where everyone wore navy blazers with gold buttons and Brendan Fraser look-alikes frolicked around the Yard with drafts of government theses in tow. Not that I knew what theses were—I had only heard about them in With Honors, a film starring Fraser as a hunky Harvard student...
When Erik Soderstrom, a seventh-grader at Inman Middle School in Atlanta, did his back-to-school shopping last month, there were three sartorial imperatives on his list: a pair of black baggy jeans, all-white sneakers and Nike wristbands. "I wear them around my wrists for sports," says the basketball-and football-loving 13-year-old. "But during the school day I wear them close to my elbow...