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SHANGHAI Anya Hindmarch Local fans of these popular totes and other accessories won't have to travel to Beijing anymore; a flagship store opens this month at Plaza 66 in the Jing'an neighborhood...
...case in point. The result of the four weeks of assessment is a national ranking that determines cadets’ priority for military division and geographic post. Those that rank high will end up at the place of their choosing—places like Hawaii are popular, Captain David Gowel, an ROTC instructor, explains. Those who find themselves farther down the list won’t be nearly so lucky...
...quickly withdraw had not been superseded by dreams of whole-scale political reconstruction, some of the damage might have been averted. True, there were not enough American troops to have prevented much of the looting of ministries and other offices. True too that there would have been considerable popular opposition to an American-backed administration, especially from the al-Qaida militants who were already beginning to infiltrate the country. Yet it is easy to imagine that many—if not most—Iraqis now believe that it would have been much better if they had been allowed...
...stand-up comedy, everyone shudders at the thought of a Rutherford B. Hayes or John Kerry. The reason so few women are in politics may be the same as the reason so few of them do comedy: people just don’t think women can be funny. Popular belief seems to locate the sense of humor in an anatomical region conspicuously absent from the average female. Indeed, in 2007, researchers found that women expect less from jokes than men do. They laugh more and at weaker punchlines than their male counterparts, although, when pressed, they admit that they find...
...Socialist-led tickets captured France's third-largest city, Toulouse, after 37 years of conservative domination. They also claimed Strasbourg, Saint-Etienne, Blois, Caen, Reims, Metz and Rouen from the right. Leftists were meanwhile returned to power in Lyon, Lille, Rennes, and Montpellier, taking 49.5% of the nation's popular vote versus 47.5% for the right. Sarkozy's governing conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) averted near total collapse by narrowly hanging on to Marseille, and standing firm in bastions like Nice, Orleans, Le Havre, and Bordeaux...