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...will roll out stores in two major cities in 2004. Even chains that previously flopped in China, including Popeyes, are enticed again. There are also the inevitable domestic copycats to contend with. An 80-outlet, Shanghai-based chain called YongHe King uses KFC's familiar red-and-white color scheme and even has a Colonel Sanders look-alike in its logo...
...designed to track students while in the U.S. Despite the fact that the approximately 583,000 internationals enrolled in American universities contribute about $12 billion to the economy, on Oct. 27, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposed that each should pay a $100 fee to fund an elaborate scheme to monitor them. The suggestion that international students should submit to such fees for the privilege of studying in the United States fails to appreciate the value of international students’ presence on U.S. campuses and gives the message that the U.S. is not interested in attracting young talent...
...style of play. With the departure of former assistant coach Nate Leaman to be head coach at Union and the arrival of Gene Reilly as Harvard’s new assistant coach, the players have had to adapt to a new approach and a new defensive scheme when down a man, a situation that is exacerbated by the amount of time Reilly has been on recruiting trips in the fall...
...take that narcissism to a whole new level—imagine a pair of sneakers emblazoned with your own name! Customers go through a three-step questionnaire on the website (beginning with “Are you male or female” to ensure the correct gender normative color scheme for your moniker) and are privy to an instant preview of their newly christened sneaker, thanks to the site’s Java-intensive set-up. Nike’s tech-savvy also means, however, that would-be political protesters will be thwarted in their attempts to make a statement...
...They play a lot of two-deep coverage,” Princeton coach Roger Hughes said. “He does a great job of working his scheme to the talent of the players he has. He [isn’t] putting kids in positions where they can’t make plays...