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...active N.B.A. player to be a league licensee. "I just kept seeing all these people wearing my T shirts, and I was not getting a dime from it," he says. From that came "Magic's 32," a store selling his T shirts and other merchandise. He later bought a Pepsi Cola distributorship with Black Enterprise publisher Earl Graves. He has since sold Graves his interest. Johnson's basketball and business skills --he owns a piece of the Lakers--have made him worth more than $100 million...
Simons described his organization's successful fight to convince Harvard Dining Services (HDS) to revoke its contract with Pepsi in light of the company's investments in Burma. He cited the group's work as evidence that student activism can affect change within the University, especially when students aim their efforts...
...PEPSI IS ORDERING OUT FOR PIZZA...
...Pepsi held on, and is now paying the price. Last week the company announced it was spinning off into an independent company its fast-food restaurant group, which includes about 29,000 Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC outlets, with sales of more than $20 billion. The restaurant group was eating capital the way a teenager can go through an extra-large taco, capital that could have been fueling growth at Pepsi. Says CEO Roger A. Enrico: "Our goal in taking these steps is to dramatically sharpen PepsiCo's focus." He needs to, given Pepsi's loss of global share...
...some truly amazing things. Philips Brooks House sends about 1,000 student volunteers into Boston. Cambridge and other localities, improving the lives of thousands of needy individuals every year. Let's Go, Inc. publishes a best-selling series of travel guides. The Undergraduate Council almost unquestionably helped influence Pepsi's decision to withdraw its investments from Burma. Harvard perennially leads the nations in Rhodes and Marshall Scholars. Its students write books and plays and TV scripts. They appear in movies, on national television and in the Olympics...