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...company is showing some new verve, assembling an international team of marketing specialists to create what it hopes will become the shiny embodiment of liquid cool. Coke is introducing a mod series of bottles called M5 to try to perk up its 119-year-old cola while launching some slick new drinks to recharge a business that has been slowly losing momentum...
...artillery battery swamped by a mudslide, still vainly pointing toward Pakistan 10 miles away. There are three or four checkpoints. Then a landslide announces the end of the road and an end to any visible relief effort. We leave our driver and are confronted by a black mud slick that extends to a peak more than 3,000 ft. above. "Are you looking for dead bodies?" asks a young man carrying a box on his shoulders. He points to the slide. "There are 90 dead bodies in that." Tawoos Hussain Manhas, 20, is a civil servant who works...
You’re hoping that he’ll go totally batshit, because most people can’t actually punch in faces left and right. Lyrical gymnastics and hot beats are here in abundance, but sometimes the street-slick Def Jux machine stifles too much of the high-pitched rapper who used to trigger nightmares...
Some call it fashion, others may call it the theater of the absurd. Last week in Milan a couple of unassuming goats shared a runway with a farmhand and some models. The occasion was the 20th anniversary of the house of Dolce & Gabbana, which was held at the designers' slick new space in the old Metropol theater where Maria Callas famously recorded her interpretation of Norma. Guests including actresses Elizabeth Hurley and Chloë Sevigny watched a movie documenting two decades of D&G's sexy, streamlined signatures before the models stomped out in fresh white eyelet bustier dresses...
...Eager to show Egyptians as well as Washington policymakers that Egypt is a practicing democracy, Mubarak joined the fray with all the trappings of a slick Western-style campaign. His trips were backed up by a campaign HQ in Cairo, staffed by media experts, pollsters, lawyers and college professors, including one with a Ph. D from an American university who once worked as a congressional aide on Capitol Hill. To fill out Mubarak's political rallies, the campaign bused in students wearing Mubarak T-shirts, caps and "Mubarak 2005" buttons - young men who as often as not were...