Word: shells
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...York City's American Girl Place costs $30 a head. Ditto for a ticket to the doll retailer's in-store musicals. Twenty smackers will cover a new hairdo for your doll at the store's salon. But if you want to buy a doll, you'll have to shell out four times that. Despite such hefty prices, the three-story doll emporium that opened in midtown Manhattan last month is mobbed. So too is Chicago's five-year-old American Girl Place, which ranks as the Magnificent Mile's top-grossing store. Many of its visitors have no doubt...
Still others avoided the actual rally, choosing instead to stay downstairs at the entrance of Austin Hall, handing out flyers lambasting both the University for playing “a shell game with its vast wealth” and the union itself for not being active enough in protecting the rights of its members...
...Jewish intellectual. Newcomer Wentworth Miller is startlingly good as the tormented young Silk, torn between the pulls of family and future. Hopkins is almost convincing as the tragic hero, and Nicole Kidman is less so as the battered Faunia, the cleaning woman who pulls Silk out of his shell. Much like Silk himself, the film is a prisoner of its own ambitions, falling victim to its literal devotion to Roth’s novel. The Human Stain is a story better left in print...
...issues. “I feel really badly about what is happening there,” he says. “The occupied territories are on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe.” As he settles into his new role as a pro-Palestinian activist, he seems shell-shocked by the ad hominem attacks that characterize debate at Harvard, including a recent e-mail from Trager...
...development are the buzzwords of the movement, and they have spawned a fast-growing industry of consultants, accountants and legal and p.r. specialists. All but six of the U.K.'s largest 100 companies now publish details of their environmental or social policies. Some firms, including Total's European rivals Shell and BP, are even making ethics a focal point of their marketing. "Profits. Principles. Or Both?" reads the tagline on a series of recent Shell ads. The big question, as Dairon suggested, is whether all this marks a tangible change in the way corporations behave, or whether it's simply...