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...ring them properly,” Eck said. “In Russia, they were and are a national treasure.” A Russian Business School student, Konstantin V. Kuzovkov, also spoke at the event. He recalled walking near the Danilov Monastery in 2005 and seeing a poster of Baker Library just as he was finishing up his application to the school. “The whole project itself is a great example of modern leadership,” Kuzovkov said, referring to the collaboration of people from a range of different backgrounds. “This...
...somewhat worrisome “child-care.” Where else could a forum for “knitting & sewing” exist cheek by jowl with one for “kink & bdsm”? (Anywhere forums are categorized alphabetically, I suppose.) Craigslist standard policy gives each poster an e-mail address from which all replies are forwarded to his or her actual account, thereby providing a level of guaranteed anonymity that brings out the best, worst, and strangest in those...
...lait-deprived heart turn the pages for more. Hemingway steered me through his time in Paris at a snappy pace, without belaboring any one point. This vision, however, is Paris without Dior sunglasses and Chanel-infused air: the café’s “yellowed poster stating the terms and penalties of the law against public drunkenness was fly blown and disregarded as its clients were constant and ill-smelling.” Though today’s Parisian squares may be marred by a Starbucks or two, Hemingway’s credo still holds...
...tailored to suit its pastoral surroundings, the large poster plastered to a wall on the winding road into a tiny village 55 miles north of Geneva uses cartoon sheep to illustrate its message: Against the backdrop of a Swiss flag, three white sheep are shown kicking a lone black one out of their flock. Ugly, perhaps, but the message of exclusion resonates deeply with Pomy's 620 inhabitants, a predominantly conservative flock with strong populist leanings. "Too many foreigners abuse the Swiss system," says the hamlet's mayor, Jean-Pierre Grin. "Our solidarity has its limits...
...poster is part of the campaign by the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP) for the October 21 parliamentary elections, and it has sparked a controversy that has shaken up Switzerland's usually placid politics. From street corners to the corridors of power, people are heatedly debating whether the poster incites racism or accurately reflects outrage over skyrocketing youth violence and other crimes perpetrated by some immigrants...