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...first orders of business. The French ruled the early days of pornography publishing, distributing programs for Parisian cabarets adorned with topless dancers as early as the 1870s. While some Americans attempted to import racy material from Europe, the industry was blunted in the U.S. by the Comstock Act, an 1873 federal statute that restricted the transport of obscene literature through the mail. (Anthony Comstock, the head of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, was perhaps the anti-Hefner, a Puritanical zealot who is said to have bragged of the number of "libertines" he drove to suicide...
...Enterprising publishers quickly found ways to circumvent the Comstock Act and similar strictures. At the beginning of the 20th century, the magazine Vanity Fair-no relation to today's glossy-depicted women of loose morals wearing men's trousers, and in the process earned a reputation as "the raciest thing around," according to Dian Hanson's The History of Men's Magazines, Vol. 1. As Hanson notes, the 1920s also marked the debut of Dawn magazine, a publication concerned with the erotic intersection of "eugenics, nudism and figure studies." By the end of that decade and into the 1930s...
Still, as retailers head into a truncated shopping season, with five fewer shopping days (and one fewer weekend) between Thanksgiving and Christmas than there were last year, stores will have to act fast. For e-commerce it's an even tighter schedule, since people need to buy early enough to ensure that presents being shipped make it under the tree in time. "A shorter season will create a little more momentum toward Cyber Monday than we've seen before," says Cassar. Retailers are just hoping it lasts...
...knowledge, generally very strongly discourage students from attempting this option.” As a result, the SFJB has fallen from student memory; it has not met in thirteen years and has not been populated by Faculty members in the last four. This must change. If only as an act of protest to the status quo—in which the Ad Board remains in need of serious reform—students with disciplinary cases before the Ad Board should consider availing themselves of this alternative judicial body. Though it remains somewhat unclear as to what cases are meant...
...that 44% of Poles believe that the communist authorities had no choice but to impose martial law, while 45% condemn the decision. Some former Solidarity leaders, such as current Speaker of the Senate Bogdan Borusewicz, are not as forgiving of Jaruzelski as others have been. "The trial is an act of justice," Borusewicz said. "The martial law was a classic Latin-style military putsch. Jaruzelski defended the communist system, not Poland. He defended the communist dictatorship, not the state...