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...appeared, with the endless summitry that goes with accommodating the E.U. Little wonder that Europe finds itself in one of its periodic bouts of angst-ridden self-doubt. And little wonder that the rest of the world is asking questions: What does Europe stand for? Where does it fit into a world that seems set to be dominated by China and the U.S.? Would anyone notice if it disappeared? (See pictures of immigration in Europe...
...Chinese consumers have their own distinctive needs," Zhou says. That's why in Septwolves shops jackets are just as likely to have a Mandarin collar as a notched lapel. Color palettes are geared to domestic tastes and all garments, even those intended for casual wear, have a certain dressiness, fit and attention to detail that Chinese men prefer - you'll see no skater shorts, scruffy denim or torn tees hanging on a Septwolves rack. "We've learned to adopt certain fashion elements that are more culturally agreeable to the Chinese consumer," says Zhou. The strategy has worked extremely well...
...fit is actually a little too neat. Once the connection is made, it feels obvious, and neither slavery nor vampirism reveals anything in particular about the other. One could imagine a richer, subtler treatment of the subject, in which the two horrors multiply each other rather than cancel each other out. The institution of slavery revealed something about the true face of young America, something unspeakable, but literalizing it in the form of a vampire turns out to not get us any closer to understanding what...
...people ask me: why would I want to stay here?” Benjamin says. “There’s no better place for me. There’s no place where I fit in more or where I feel as accepted or as free to grow and change, or where I can actually be one of these kids that I idolized for however many years...
...Russia will morph into Europe. For years, the opposition movement's strategy has been to rub away at Putin's credibility "like drops of water on a cinderblock," as one of its leading figures, Boris Nemtsov, puts it. For most of that time, the impact of their work has fit this analogy. In the past few weeks, though, signs of something new have begun to emerge. Regular Russians, not just the usual crew of activists, have been coming out by the thousands to call for Putin to resign. De-Putinization, opposition figures say, has finally begun. (See pictures of Putin...