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...hand slapping." Half a world away, Yang Rong manages the privately run Jinhua Asset Underwear Co., with a factory tucked into hills a few hundred kilometers from Shanghai that exports some of the world's sexiest lace bras. On his shop floor, surrounded by 200 young workers outfitted in pink kerchiefs and aprons, Yang points to the wall on which he has taped a laminated list of rules issued by Walt Disney Co., with which Asset Underwear contracts to make clothing featuring Disney characters. The list prohibits, among other things, indentured servitude and "slavery." Yang thinks that's funny...
They thumb through pages of posters, hoping to find that vintage Animal House print that will stand out amidst the flood of reissues. For many, dorm room decorating is a chance to reinvent oneself—a time to break away from the pink sheets and stuffed animal smorgasbords of one’s past and inform the world, or at least the entryway, about the complex enigma they are so privileged to have in their midst...
...Rindfleisch, evening supervisor at Lamont, said that when patrons were actually able to find their books—not a trivial task with circulation details reduced to paper-age technology—they could check them out by recording information on pink cards, instead of scanning bar codes into Hollis...
...second of three floors in Sigma Chi’s new home at 1124 Mass. Ave. is all pink paint and flower wallpaper—not what one would expect to find in a fraternity house...
Sigma Chi now enjoys old moldings, fireplaces, wood bannisters, ceiling medallions and old light fixtures. While they have yet to paint over the pink rooms and rip down the flowered wall paper, the house is beginning to assume a fraternity ambience...