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...planning to open an additional 35 by 2005. In each market, the stores offer both basic and fashion-forward lines for women, men, teens and children. In every European market it has entered, H&M has put pressure on local retailers, says Francoise Sackrider, a retail specialist at the Institut Francais de la Mode, in Paris. "The high level of goods and the sophisticated environment at these stores wiped out any complexes shoppers had about less expensive stores...
...conservative successor Jean Tiberi figured they had rightly read the public will by keeping a strict limit on building heights. As Blet and other opponents of towers point out, the height restrictions haven't cut Paris off entirely from architectural innovation: consider Jean Nouvel's glass-walled Institut du Monde Arabe (1988) along the Seine and I.M. Pei's pyramid at the Louvre (1989). "Nothing is stopping them from making nice things," insists Fabrice Piault, head of an activist neighborhood organization in the 13th arrondissement, where office buildings are filling in the space around the four 79-m towers...
...system but not to the idea of paying itself. If higher fees are introduced, he worries, "it will just be a number of years until the cap comes off and we'll have a system similar to what they have in the States." In France, the Institut d'études Politiques de Paris (IEP), one of the country's élite higher-learning institutions, announced in September that annual tuition at the school will rise from the current €1,050 up to €4,000 a year. Students from low-income families will pay less than those from more...
...though money may well be at the root of all evil, it can also pave the road to a greater justice, a more benevolent, though still imperfect, world. Indeed, the one major difference I have thus far seen between the supposedly "élite" university where I also teach - the Institut d'études Politiques de Paris, for which most must pass an entrance exam and pay around 31,000 in annual tuition - and the more "democratic" ones, is that the former works. A manageable number of students actually show up in a classroom designed to accommodate them, bringing with them...
Karin Kolb, program coordinator at the Goethe-Institut Boston, explained the reason behind the exhibition. “We liked the fact of being able to show the public a different side of well-known and respected filmmaker Wim Wenders,” she said...