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...Back along the canal Saint-Martin, hundreds of people continue bedding down on freezing concrete and paving stones, inside thin nylon tents propped up on cardboard or wooden pallets as insulation. Along a stretch of embankment an improvised sign has renamed "SDF Boulevard," G?rard backs into and zips up his tent to prepare for what he good-naturedly anticipates will be "another night, and more people wandering by." Further upstream, in a series of more permanent homeless camps by the canal, visitors are greeted with far less cheer - and told to go "back down there if you want a show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down and Out in Paris | 12/29/2006 | See Source »

...could tell they were just poor peasants in new clothes: They were given away by their callused hands, dirt under their fingernails and the identical creases on their straight-out-of-the-box shirts - the quiet-spoken apple grower named Liang Yumin still had a piece of cardboard tucked under his collar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Death of a Chinese Democrat | 12/27/2006 | See Source »

...Earlier this month, the Qixia men contacted me again. Liang Yumin, who had neglected to remove the cardboard from his collar at my office five years ago, had committed suicide. He had told friends he could no longer face the abuse from local officials. Over the years, Liang had been jailed and beaten. Any time he needed official authorization - to sell his crops to the local cooperative, or to send his kids to school - he faced obstruction. Liang told a friend he wished he had never run for office. He cursed himself for having been popular enough to win. With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Death of a Chinese Democrat | 12/27/2006 | See Source »

...that it is not the body that should be operating them. As the elected student government, the UC is in a unique position to facilitate—but not directly provide—a variety of campus-wide student services. Students appreciate having shuttles to the airport, inexpensive cardboard boxes for move-out, and $1 movie nights—all of which the UC used to provide. The UC is a single, central body with both the authority and financial means to coordinate these endeavors, and so the responsibility to do so falls on it. The UC?...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Bring the Shuttles Back | 12/18/2006 | See Source »

...custom-made suit twice that, but a number of High Street men's clothiers?including Brooks Brothers, Joseph A. Bank and Thomas Pink?have started to turn out dress shirts made to measure for about $200 a pop?more than the ones already pinned to cardboard and wrapped in plastic but not that much more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cuff Above | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

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