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Dean's online presence would amount to little more than fun and games if not for a couple of influential websites unaffiliated with the campaign. One of them is Meetup.com a commercial site that mostly helps Harry Potter fans or Star Trek geeks arrange get-togethers with like-minded strangers. Once the campaign discovered hundreds of supporters at the site, aides realized it was an extremely useful way to connect Dean supporters and made an agreement with the site...
MARKETING STRATEGY It's well worth a trek into the hippie hills beyond Noosa for a visit to the legendary Eumundi Market. Its location is a gift?the gorgeous village of Eumundi is one of the few Queensland towns that have almost entirely preserved its colonial and Federation-period architecture. Many of the buildings surrounding the market were built between 1890 and 1930. And there's an engrossing little museum to browse through when market burnout sets...
...Harvard students trek to the Potter movies and read the books? Now that dreary sourcebooks are temporarily put away for the summer, what does 870 pages of escapist literature offer us? For one, the long-noted parallels between Harvard and Hogwarts are no longer just skin deep in Order of the Phoenix. Sure, Annenberg still bears a striking resemblance to the Hogwarts of the two Potter movies. Hogwarts still has residential Houses, though its sorting system (the cunning kids go to Slytherin, the smart ones to Ravenclaw, the brave to Gryffindor and everyone else to Hufflepuff) is the kind...
...Besides, superlatives are Umphang's stock in trade. By day's end, we would be camped at Southeast Asia's biggest waterfall (Thi Lor Su, an aquatic Goliath some 400 m tall and 500 m wide), getting ready to trek through Thailand's most virginal teak forests before clambering onto Asia's largest animal (the elephant) to tour some of the country's most remote hill tribes...
...Summers’ presidential website, he has listed what he calls the “Harvard University Statement of Values.” In terms drawing inspiration from a variety of sources, such as the Declaration of Independence and “Star Trek,” he declares that Harvard “aspires to provide education and scholarship of the highest quality—to advance the frontiers of knowledge and to prepare individuals for life, work, and leadership.” And, in the strictest sense, he is correct. Harvard does provide education, and it does advance...