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Given that most men don't buy new clothes until the ones they have are irredeemably stained or torn, how do retailers get them to acquire more khakis and buttoned-down shirts when they already have several in their closet? In effect, by throwing in the towel. A wave of new products suggests that manufacturers are finally conceding that they will never get most men interested in high fashion. So, helped by new technology, they are appealing to men's baser fashion instincts and habits...
Harvard College Library spokesperson Beth Brainard says the checks are a means of double-checking the machines and preventing thefts of pages torn from library books. She also says the value of Harvard’s collections mandate this high level of security. But as a means of achieving these goals, the door checks are largely ineffective...
...compartment of a backpack or skip the check altogether. For all the double-checking, it would be easy enough to hide a book in other compartments or jacket pockets. Furthermore, anything short of patting down library patrons as they exit will do little to catch thieves who have torn out pages...
...Ph.D twice as expensive as a bachelor’s degree. And for a limited time only, bogus transcripts and student identification cards are also available at the one-stop shop. Meanwhile, Closedcollege.com will provide the customer with a “replacement” diploma if you have torn or misplaced the original...
...That's how it is with his designs too. In his latest line, launched at the Paris pret-a-porter collections last month, Takahashi takes the very Japanese idea of "deconstructed clothing"?garments torn apart and put back together in novel ways?and infuses it with a sense of violence. Jackets and pants are ripped to shreds, then stitched with loose red thread left dangling in a manner that suggests blood. Shirtsleeves are amputated and re-attached the way a wound would be sutured. The aesthetic nexus between beauty and pain obsesses Takahashi, and the collection is as viciously elegant...