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Sadly, the show treats this hackneyed six-degrees-of-fornication observation like a major insight. Like Sex and the City, Word clearly wants to be a font of urban-sexual trend spotting, romantic wisdom and magazine-ready catchphrases. (It ham-handedly drops words like hasbian--a former sapphist--as if to scream, "Look! We're cool! We get it!") But it could use more of Sex's sense of irony. Instead it earnestly believes its most trite observations are brilliant revelations; watching it is like spending an hour a week with an overconfident college sophomore. The L Word has lust...
...grown its market share in categories like cosmetics and hair care, both globally and in the U.S. Consider Maybelline, the U.S. mass-market cosmetics house that L'Oreal acquired in 1996. The French giant revamped the brand's drab packaging, relabeled it Maybelline New York to give it an urban edge and took it on the road. From 1996 to 2002, sales of Maybelline outside the U.S. grew 93%. Propelled by products like the glistening Water Shine Diamonds lipstick, which cashes in on the trendy wet look for lips, Maybelline is now the preferred cosmetics brand for 44% of Chinese...
After Harvard and Charlesview come to an agreement, any plan to move the building will face a challenging approval process, overseen by the mayor, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which finances low-income tenants through the government’s “Section 8” housing subsidies...
...Bush administration’s record to date suggests that such a claim is either remarkably disingenuous or equally naive. The administration has racked up three tax cuts in three years, fundamentally altering the government’s long-term fiscal outlook in the process. According to a recent Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center report, the tax cuts have helped to convert a 10 year surplus of $1.3 trillion into a 10 year deficit of $4.5 trillion. This fiscal deterioration has tremendously important implications for our government’s ability to preserve Social Security, Medicare and other critical programs...
Thernstrom agreed with Orfield on the need to improve the nation’s schools, but instead of focusing on problem-plagued urban schools, Thernstrom advocated giving parents vouchers that would allow them to enroll their children in private, charter or parochial schools...