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...Brooks sales, a real spike at a store that for most of its 189 years downplayed the fact that women wore its clothes. These days Brooks is paying much more attention. Take, for example, the classic button-down, which is now specially designed with a narrower placard and smaller collar and comes in four different cuts. Brooks has even opened some women's-only shops...
...Harvard students—they acutely realize the effort of employment and the comparative ease of stroking one’s ego while greedily claiming the moral high ground. The ivory-tower activist only need reach for his keyboard, or, if he feels adventurous that day, grab a placard and march in the square, to soothe his weary conscience worn down by the moral baggage of upper-middle-class luxury. Common sense approved by custom once deemed the best goods to be those most difficult to attain—the postmodern Academy has, thanks to the e-mail petition (located...
...chairman called a rare meeting, inviting all interested parties - via the trusted local method, a placard posted on the bus stop - to gather on a Saturday morning at the home of the chairman. Five people showed up. But their proposed solution to the potholed road - taking up a collection to fund repairs - will probably meet the same fate as Igor Petrovich's plans for the pond...
...airport wasn't about long lines, delays, lost luggage or missed connections. Instead, the protesters - who had demonstrated outside Heathrow all of last week - were trying to draw travelers' attention to the impact on climate change of the carbon gases emitted by the aircraft in which they fly. A placard from one activist at Heathrow expressed it thus: "You Fly, They...
...postcard, like the posters it describes, goes from silly to serious. Considering that this is the grim reality, it’s difficult to justify the absence of such campaigns in the U.S., particularly on grounds as trivial as taste. It’s not just that, as one placard of a lemon sporting a condom declares, “Safely makes fun!” It’s that condoms are indeed, as a particularly punny ad featuring them on potatoes says, “Überlebensmittel”: something that goes over (über) groceries...