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...most of France, the traditional September rentrée represents the depressing end of vacation and a return to toil for millions of workers, students and politicians. For the nation's publishing industry, by contrast, the September rentrée littéraire is a period of excitement and expectation, holding the promise of success and sales for some, acclaim and awards for others. This year has brought a new high of activity, with the first of nearly 700 new titles already flooding bookshops - and taxing the capacity of the book-buying public to absorb them all. Literary pride...
...Armani plans to open 20 stores in China over the next three years. Move over Pierre Cardin. - Lauren Goldstein MEN'S WEAR Savile Row Redux One might think that closing off Savile Row for a party and fashion show would raise a few eyebrows among the tailors who toil there. But the Savile Row residents are used to the antics of Ozwald Boateng, the tailor who opened a shop at the end of their street in 1995 - and went out of business five years later. Boateng's return was the cause of the big bash. "It's fun," said...
...sport as merely an individual. Never again will I play in the name of a school, be it Harvard University, Deerfield Academy or Wandell Elementary School. For the amateur athlete, one of the greatest motivations is to play for something bigger than one’s self, to toil for something that dwarfs a single individual’s importance. My opportunity to do this in the athletic sphere largely ends today...
...bourgeoisie, one of the things that we didn't want to do anymore was cook." But, says White, "I think we're moving away from that. Increasingly, African Americans are entering cooking schools and becoming interested in food from a creative point of view, rather than food simply as toil. The pendulum is swinging back...
...African-Americans suffer from on-going injustice. To be sure, slavery anchors the claim to repair: it has been estimated that the present-day value of expropriated slave-labor ranges to trillions of dollars, depending the rate of interest. Importantly, the emancipated slaves were neither compensated for this toil, nor treated as equal citizens upon their emancipation. Instead, freed slaves and their descendants were subjected to the Jim Crow period of legalized discrimination and segregation that dedicated a system of inferiority to them in all areas of life from residential segregation to educational separation and political disenfranchisement. The result...