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...Americans really ready to give up their Dior gowns to protest French policy on Iraq? The answer mostly seems to be non. Women's Wear Daily reports no drop-off in sales of luxury French designers like Chanel at New York City department stores. The town of Paris, Texas, which proudly displays its French connection, left, is not changing its name. And IHOP says anti-French fervor has not hurt its new breakfast-menu item, Stuffed French Toast. "French toast really has nothing to do with France," notes an IHOP spokesman. "This has been our most successful new product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brie? Non, Merci! | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

...Olympic Committee, the fourth boss to step down in four years; seven weeks after being stripped of his $184,800 bonus for trying to steer Olympic business to a company with ties to his brother; in Colorado Springs, Colo. Five other top officials had previously resigned in protest over the Committee's handling of the issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Mar. 10, 2003 | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

According to HIPJ member Kevin P. Connor ’04, 850 students have pledged to leave their classes in protest should the United States launch military action against Iraq. A vocal demonstration outside the Science Center is planned to follow the walkout...

Author: By Alexander J. Blenkinsopp, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Allocates Funds to Walkout | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

...Sacks—was snowed in, but both joined in readings held at Adams House and the Loeb. All across the country—in churches and bookstores and makeshift spaces, before and after the anti-war rallies of February 17th—poets combined artistic expression with political protest. The stereotype of the scholar-poet writing in dusty oblivion quickly became replaced by the media-savvy poet-activist, writing in a new wasteland where websites (i.e. poetsagainstthewar.org) are the publishing houses of choice...

Author: By Sue Meng, | Title: The Poet-Activists | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

...make big claims for what poetry can do. Sam Hamill identifies poets as the “conscience of our culture,” responsible for providing the clarity that neither the government nor the news media is capable of. Their poems are not only acts of civic protest, but also affirmations of the immediate social power of literature; understood in this manner, literature does not provide a haven from our world, but a way to cultivate the sympathies necessary to being better citizens in it. What is revolutionary about this kind of poetry is that it doesn?...

Author: By Sue Meng, | Title: The Poet-Activists | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

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