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This spring, Toys "R" Us tested the Zhu Zhu Pets in the Phoenix area. "When the first numbers came in, we could hardly believe them," says Storch. "We fell in love immediately." So have consumers. Cepia also executed a clever marketing plan. During the summer, the company hosted hamster-demonstration events at Major League Baseball games, of all places. The Zhu Zhus attended ball games in Atlanta, Arizona, Philadelphia, Texas, Seattle and Washington, D.C. Cepia also actively courted the mommy bloggers, sponsoring some 250 "hamster parties" at the homes of bloggers across the country. Cepia shipped product to the moms...
Ashraf mentioned the example of demonstrators involved with Iran’s Green Movement, which sought last summer to overturn election results that many viewed as potentially fraudulent...
...only highlighted the legacy of her father, but also discussed the work of her uncle, Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, and aunt Eunice Kennedy Shriver, both of whom passed away this summer...
...would make up for with his political smarts. That was one of the chief points made in his favor when the Obama Administration named the former California Congressman and Clinton White House chief of staff as its CIA director. So many CIA veterans were not happy over the summer, when they felt that Panetta had failed to protect the agency from the political backlash over its Bush-era detention and interrogation practices. "There was a feeling [Panetta] had not done enough to defend the CIA from the politicians," says a former agency staffer. "People were asking, 'What's the point...
Doubts about Panetta's political skills had arisen in the summer, when President Obama decided to release secret memos about the CIA's controversial interrogation practices at Guantánamo Bay and other secret prisons - and when U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder ordered an investigation into potential wrongdoing by interrogators...