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...Tony Blair, Spain's Jose Maria Aznar and Italy's Silvio Berlusconi - are all swimming against the tide of domestic opinion in order to support Bush, and all have pressed for Washington to seek UN endorsement. Even in the U.S., opinion polls find that a majority of Americans would prefer UN endorsement for a war, and the number of registered voters telling pollsters they'd reelect President Bush in 2004 fell below 50 percent this week...
...Time Warner (through its China Entertainment Television, or CETV) become the first foreign broadcasters to deliver Mandarin-language entertainment channels legally over cable. That gave them access to ordinary Chinese viewers. But the government restricted them to China's toughest TV market: Guangdong province in southern China, where viewers prefer Cantonese-language programs available from Hong Kong. In January, Starry Sky also gained approval for satellite transmission to luxury hotels and expatriates' apartments nationwide?the same deal enjoyed by about 30 foreign-language channels. Even with the new distribution deal, Starry Sky's total national audience probably doesn...
...past, evangelical Christians, who often prefer a more emotional and freewheeling worship style than more traditional churches offer, haven’t had many options for worship at Harvard. Many rode the “T” into Boston every Sunday morning to attend Park Street Church, and others went to a small church near Boston University. But now, Harvard’s evangelical students—a loosely defined group with a total membership of about a few hundred—are finding a new home within easy walking distance from their dorms...
...Cerkezkoy gave Mavi the edge they needed. Unlike other global brands which outsource to many different manufacturers, controlling its own flexible, high-tech production plant means Mavi can afford to tweak each pair of jeans to accommodate different tastes in different countries. Turks are shorter than North Americans, Canadians prefer slimmer cuts, and Germans are fastidiously fashion-conscious. "We don't try to push the same product to different markets," says Ersin Akarlilar, Sait's U.S.-educated son who runs American operations. "That makes it harder on production, but it has helped us a lot in expanding abroad." That difference...
Government and economics, are particularly disinclined toward studies defined by geographical or cultural regions, Bellin says. They prefer theory...