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Fears that higher education faces budgets cuts are justified. Paleologos said. "It's a difficult target to resist for people who have the knives out," he said...
...Status is an influence at every level. We resist the notion that it matters, but it's true. You can't escape it. You see it in restaurants -- not just in New York. People seem willing to pay any amount to be seen at this week's restaurant of the century. It's all part of what I call plutography: depicting the acts of the rich. They not only want to be seen at this week's restaurant of the century, they want to be embraced by the owner. But status isn't only to do with the rich. Status...
...hopes for an equitable, moderate, if not wholly popular solution are overshadowed by charges of unfairness when only certain houses participate. Is it possible to resist charges of hypocrisy when masters say, in essence, "Diversity is good in the houses, but only in some of the houses...
...major career decision for celebrities at the moment is not whether to sell out but which cola to endorse when they do. In the latest episode of their unending battle to top each other, Coca-Cola and Pepsi are offering fees that almost no one can resist. Last week Pepsi announced that the Material Girl, Madonna, has signed up for a one-year global advertising campaign (her estimated fee: almost $10 million). The title song from the singer's new album, Like a Prayer, will debut in March on Pepsi's prime-time television commercials. Pepsi's team has already...
...effective, any law regulating semiautomatic assault rifles would have to be federal. It would make no sense to ban such weapons in, say, California, if they could be legally purchased in neighboring Arizona or Oregon. But tens of millions of Americans -- not to mention the Bush Administration -- resist the thought of giving Washington that much power over citizens' lives...