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...does this mean?'," Orkina says. Coca-Cola moved fast to capitalize on the buzz. Teaming with record label BMG, which had found DJ Bobo, it slapped a Coke logo on CDs and started selling singles. The campaign spread to other markets. And Chihuahua mamboed to No. 2 on the pan-European Eurochart. The stealth marketing success of 2003 in the Netherlands, a TV show called 6Pack, is funded by Heineken, but you won't see its logo during the show. 6Pack, which ended its 100-episode run last week, gave six young people 15 minutes each weeknight to amuse themselves...
...Even before Tuesday's firefight in Mosul, there had been signs that the resistance was expanding both in the scope and number of its attacks, and also in its increasingly brazen public-relations efforts. The day after Saddam's sons were killed in Mosul, the pan-Arab cable channel al-Jazeera aired footage of masked Saddam loyalists bearing Kalashnikovs and RPG launchers vowing to avenge Uday and Qusay Hussein. The footage was shot on a dusty street in broad daylight "somewhere in Iraq," the network explained. Not to be outdone, Jazeera's Dubai-based competitor Al-Arabiya on Thursday carried...
Ignoring my budget (as I would never do for myself), I hit the upscale shops on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Barneys, Brooks Brothers and Saks were a bust--nothing formal in Conor's size. Bergdorf's Best & Co. shop had lovely seersucker suits and Peter Pan--collared shirts, but the point was to dress my son, not humiliate him. And Gucci's $2,000 jade green silk bomber jacket would have clashed with my lavender bridesmaid's dress...
...good or bad, there are also witches and wizards in the gray area in between. Even if the Potter books, as Yale professor Harold Bloom predicted, end up "in the dustbins everywhere," readers worldwide, young and old, will remember them as fascinating, magical stories of bravery and love. MELISSA PAN Plano, Texas...
...across the continent - and in the process created an unlikely cultural force. Since the launch of the program three weeks ago, millions of viewers have tuned in every evening, making Big Brother one of the most popular television programs ever produced in Africa. Three decades after the concept of Pan-Africanism fizzled out, satellite television is working where liberation philosophy did not: connecting and modernizing the world's poorest continent. "There is an integrating aspect to television," says David Mafabi, director of political affairs at the moribund Uganda-based Secretariat of the Pan-African Movement. "Shows like this...