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MADRID Spaniards favor a more relaxed look. Men spend about 70% of their clothing budget on leisure wear. This year leather jackets are more popular than ever, according to Sonia Perezminguez at Loewe...
...fixed cocoa prices that once protected the region’s farmers. Now, the price is determined on world commodity markets. Small farmers, who produce the bulk of the world’s cocoa, are particularly vulnerable to volatile world prices. The cocoa purchasing system is also skewed in favor of traders and middlemen—farmers generally see little of the increased profit when chocolate prices rise. According to the European Fair Trade Association, farmers typically receive only five percent of the profit from chocolate sales, while traders and manufacturers receive 70 percent...
Desmond Bryant—a 6’6, 225 pound recruit from North Carolina—got an offer from Duke, but passed it up in favor of the Crimson. And I know that Duke may not be what one would consider a “power program,” but it’s an ACC school that has the TV contracts that could help a player springboard into national exposure...
Upon hearing reports of a new fad in favor of grade inflation, Lecturer on the Study of Religion Brian C.W. Palmer ’86 will reverse course and start giving out all A’s in his classes. What...
Homosexual rights in America are climbing up a very slippery slope. The US Supreme Court’s decision ruling against sodomy laws and, more recently, the Massachusetts Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of gay marriage have been two major steps in the direction of equality of sexuality. These rulings have sparked the anger of the conservative right against both the Supreme Court and the Massachusetts rulings...