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MICHAEL CAMERON Wears Pepsi shirt on Coke day: "liberty or death...
Today in Moscow, however, the foreign invasion is in full swing. American consumerism is fast consuming Moscow's population. The perestroika-era novelty of Gorbachev sneaking McDonald's and Pepsi through the gates to a hungry population has begot a deluge of American products. Today, the area behind the Kremlin looks quite a bit like Times Square. Sanyo and Coca-Cola signs light up the night sky. Russians chow down at a McDonald's only a few blocks from the Kremlin, while a Pizza Hut a few blocks further down Tverskaya Boulevard faces a statue of Pushkin, Russia's national...
...never before in my memory had a conservative group taken an active stance in campus politics. Conservatism here tends to be expressed in enforced apathy. The opinions of Harvard students or the Undergraduate Council do not matter in the world, they say, and it is pretentious to think that Pepsi will pull out of Burma just because we say so (I'm sure they pulled out from the goodness of their corporate hearts). But to have a group challenge the very foundation of the progressive liberal orthodoxy was new and frightening...
...reality, the council was debating whether Pepsi, a company known for human rights abuses in Burma, should serve our dining halls. In a Spring 1996 vote, the council supported returning Coke to the dining halls. Following our example, other campuses did the same. Neither Michigan nor the University of Pennsylvania serves Pepsi. Moreover, I recently got a call from a high school classmate who had read the front-page Wall Street Journal article on our grape referendum. We clearly have a voice that reaches farther than Johnston Gate or the Massachusetts state line...
...Spiceworld, the Girls' new album that contains their Pepsi commercial, debuts meekly at No. 8, below the new Oasis release...