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...THERE IS NO LONGER A STIGMA ABOUT DISCOUNTS...
...broke into the New York City fashion crowd in 2002, years after its first runway show there in 1996. "Our product had changed," says Azria. "Our collection was much more deep and really meant something." Still, says BCBG president Ben Malka, it wasn't easy. "There was a certain stigma that Max broke. He said, 'We're here to serve consumers, not egos,' and he designed a product that was salable and had a fluid, sophisticated sexiness, a point of view. Everyone said he was crazy, but he went up there and fought his way in like a pit bull...
...Cross-cultural comparisons are odious, of course. The rioting French Muslims were largely poor, unemployed immigrants or the children of immigrants, familiar with anti-Arab stigma and no doubt aware that the number of fellow-believers in the French Assembly could be counted on one hand - with fingers left over. By contrast, the American Christians who responded "Christian first" are probably employed and ethnically unalienated (to put it politely). Far from being disenfranchised, they are an increasingly powerful voting bloc who - when they wanted to see their views better represented - elected and then re-elected a President...
...when Hassan’s twin brother died of pneumonia.This morning, I asked a pediatrician if Hassan had been tested for AIDS. He shook his head and explained, in halting French and broken English, “With children, there’s no point in invoking a social stigma when there’s nothing I can do to treat them anyway. So what do I do? If he gets malaria, I treat it. If he gets pneumonia, I treat it. And I will let him die without the burden of knowing. That’s what I have...
...while the smaller one is in a funk. The gap in average incomes between the countries has widened significantly in recent years to approximately 30%, drawing Kiwis across the Tasman in large numbers. Hanging over several of New Zealand's key industries (think banking), there's a branch-office stigma. Australia's Treasurer Peter Costello is chopping at tax rates with the glee of a burly bloke in a blue singlet. Kiwi workers complain that Costello's counterpart Michael Cullen is being a scrooge on fiscal policy, stacking up Budget surpluses when there's a good case for tax relief...