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Vultaggio treats the battle for supremacy in the $3.5 billion ready-to-drink tea category like a heavyweight bout, and he plays the role of the trash-talking underdog. He dismisses Lipton (made by Pepsi and Unilever) and Nestea (a Coke-Nestlé partnership) as "garbage." His advice to Coke: "Fire those people [the marketing executives]. Put them on a truck, and run them south. They're out there covering their asses." Vultaggio gloats about the fate of Snapple, once a proud independent like Arizona, that was swallowed and spit out by Quaker Oats and is now part of Cadbury-Schweppes...
...Coming into the match as a significant underdog, Harvard shocked division-leading ESU, winning 3-1 (30-25, 30-26, 28-30, 30-27) on Friday night at Koehler Fieldhouse in East Stroudsburg...
...this a long-shot triumph? Not exactly. The Crash upset simply certified what many football poolers know: bet on the home dog (the underdog playing on its own field). As we?ve been saying in the magazine and online the past few weeks, Los Angeles is the company town of the movie business, and Crash is the ultimate L.A. movie-anyway, the gaudiest freeway funhouse mirror. Besides, this huge ensemble effort employed close to a hundred L.A. actors. As Stewart urged the crowd in his opening monologue, ?Raise your hands if you were not in Crash...
...overall goal in South Dakota, Hunt argues, is to rebalance the scales. ?You have two human beings here. In the United States, where we value life, we?re big fans of the underdog, perhaps the life of an unborn child is more critical and more important than a woman making a choice. It?s a balancing act, I admit. But when you put the proper weights on the scale, it will favor protecting the life of unborn children...
TAYLOR HICKS, 29 Birmingham, Ala. Sounds like: Joe Cocker Judgment call: The soulful elder belter appeals to boomers and underdog lovers. Call him Season 5's gray horse His odds...