Word: sloganeers
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...York Times famously prides itself on publishing "all the news that's fit to print." But that slogan was coined a century before the digital age. Last week, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that freelance writers retained full rights to their work in cyberspace, the Times began to purge its electronic archives of 115,000 articles that freelancers had written from 1980 to 1995. For freelancers who don't want their work expunged, the Times set up a Web page where they can waive their rights to past articles. Says Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis: "We don't want...
...said Bangladesh was a place where no one should ever have lived. He was only half joking. This is not a destination for relaxation, pampering or guided tours of picture-perfect settings. Leave that for Bali or the Bahamas. The country used to sell itself with the rather telling slogan: "Come to Bangladesh before the tourists." This is a land to make you think. Until it hurts...
Only a year and a half ago, Rohith Ajjampur was teaching at a computer training school near Bangalore in India's high-tech heartland. Almost by accident, he saw a newspaper photo of a German computer executive wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan, "Are you Indian?" Intrigued, he visited the company's website and saw that it was looking for programmers. Today Ajjampur, 25, is working at the Berlin Internet firm Datango - the company that advertised on the T-shirt. "I never expected this to happen," he says, gesturing to the surrounding high-rises of the East Berlin...
...green card program has been controversial in Germany, where immigration remains a touchy subject. The country has more than 7 million foreigners, about 9% of the population, the highest percentage in Western Europe. In state elections last year, the opposition Christian Democratic Union used as a campaign slogan "Kinder statt Inder," which means "children instead of Indians." The slogan was meant to suggest that the state should properly educate German children to fill the country's high-tech jobs rather than bring in foreigners. But many people considered the phrase anti-immigrant racism...
...Mike Shaw. "If the runner eats lunch at McDonald's in Cincinnati or shops at Sears, that's all very natural." A midseason WB wilderness-race show is being co-produced by Ford, which supplies the suvs the players will drive; the title, No Boundaries, is a Ford ad slogan. Fox may even do placements in Temptation Island 2. (Trojan, call your agency...