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...fashion houses of Paris are throwing a major hissy fit. They are the masters of fashion. And yet anyone with an Internet account can now get the latest in haute couture almost as soon as the models sway down the narrow catwalks--minus the champagne, neodisco music, and oohs and ahs from the audience. Photos of collections are being uploaded into the World Wide Web just hours after shows end (one site is First View: http://www.firstview.com) As a result, cheap knockoff artists can get an even quicker head start on designers in the race to retail stores--a race...
...people in history and literature tend to sway a little more towards history or a little more towards literature," he says...
...second directly concerns students. Since the Internet is disproportionately available through the nation's universities, the policies set by those universities have tremendous sway over the general public. Georgia State University, for instance, allows racist pages to be posted through its web server with a disclaimer that the views are not necessarily those of Georgia State...
...rally which brought hundreds of students to the John Harvard statue on December 7 vented student and faculty anger but did not sway Lewis or Professor of Government and Sociology Theda Skocpol, who heads the newly-created student-faculty committee on public service...
...golden child but has started a propaganda campaign against him, saying his family was "notorious among their neighbors" and the boy himself once drowned a dog, which the official Xinhua news agency proclaims is "a heinous crime in the eyes of the Buddha." Such assertions are unlikely to sway Tibetans to Beijing's choice...