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Mark's launch is just the latest stroke in Avon's corporate makeover. Under the leadership of CEO Andrea Jung, who took over in 1999, the once dated Avon is "now an accepted fashion brand," says Steele. Among Jung's moves: introducing dozens of new products, including an antiaging skin-care line; starting an e-commerce website; and aggressively expanding overseas, especially in such emerging markets as Eastern Europe and Latin America. "A mother has to be healthy to birth a child," Jung says. "Our parent company has never been in better shape...
...demands to Colombo. While uncompromising, the LTTE proposals were only a starting point for negotiations, the diplomat stresses. Moreover, for the first time the Tigers explicitly withdrew their claim to create a separate nation in the north and east of the country. "[Kumaratunga] has erased at a stroke the personal rapport and confidence built up between the Tigers and members of the government," says Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, executive director of Sri Lanka's nongovernmental Center for Policy Alternatives. "At best, the peace process is in cold storage. At worst, anything could happen...
...RECOVERING. LEE KUAN YEW, 80, Singapore's founding father, after prostate surgery; in Singapore. Lee was listed in stable condition. His surgery came after his wife suffered a stroke in London last month. Although he stepped down as Prime Minister in 1990, Lee still wields significant influence as Senior Minister...
...study card day but make them significantly worse. I had four years to deal with Cornell’s maddening CourseEnroll, and am delighted now by the relative ease of study cards. Online course enrollment, in truth, is a matter of sitting by your computer, waiting for the stroke of midnight so that you can hope to actually get into your classes by acting fast, and then tapping your fingers for at least 25 stressful minutes, clicking again and again while the server fails to connect. It’s worse than calling a concert ticket hotline on the first...
...we’re grateful for a safe community in which to do this. But Drag Night doesn’t always foster the kind of freedom and diversity it purports to. Prince Charming may get some fake boobs to be beautiful for a few hours, but by the stroke of midnight, his stubble returns and he changes back into a man, his masculinity intact. So the question is, does Drag Night really allow us to play around with such entrenched categories as male and female? Or is it the kind of fun that only perpetuates these categories...