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...Obama isn't the only Presidential hopeful to come through town in recent months. Former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, who recently announced his candidacy in New Orleans, made a stop in Los Angeles to promote his book Home: The Blueprint Of Our Lives, and, like Obama, had a few discreet meetings with entertainment industry figures. Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, Sen. Chistopher J. Dodd of Connecticut and Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden have all visited Hollywood. Some come to test the waters; others are raising money. But all of them are looking for face-time with celebrities, entertainment industry heavyweights...
...this point, Hollywood's Democrats are being relatively discreet in announcing their favorites. While Hillary Clinton certainly has a devoted following in town - although her stand on Iraq has alienated some - Obama has a fresh-face appeal. Former Vice President Al Gore, who's beloved by the Hollywood environmental community, is also someone with lots of fans. "I would do everything in my power to convince Gore to run again," says environmental activist Laurie David, who is also be the wife of Curb Your Enthusiasm's Larry David. "But he says he's not seriously considering...
Ostheim in der Rhoen is a quiet German town in northern Bavaria. Picture-book pretty, with narrow, winding streets, it doesn't seem like a place where anything - let alone anything hip - ever happens. But this bucolic hamlet is the birthplace of Bionade, an all-natural soft drink that's become a national sensation (it more than tripled sales last year), one that its creators now hope to export worldwide...
...flavors, like cranberry. But the major hurdle is just getting the drink on store shelves. To do that, the company will likely have to pair up with a major distributor, like Starbucks or Anheuser-Busch, which seems anathema to a company that has marketed itself as an idealistic small-town enterprise. After all, it was multinational corporations that almost put the brewery out of business in the first place. Timothy Calkins, clinical professor of marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Chicago's Northwestern University, cautions: "The key challenge on growth is, how do you remain true to your...
...upper-middle-class Jewish suburban town, I was smart enough to know that no one I grew up with would ever play major league baseball. But I did dream this: Perhaps one of us upper-middle class Jews would become a sportswriter who got to vote for the Hall of Fame...