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...Stop Falling All Over High Heels "Heeling Power" gives various explanations for why women choose to wear stiletto heels but ignores serious and feminist analyses of this so-called choice [Oct. 13]. It can be viewed as analogous to the old Chinese tradition of foot-binding in its restrictions on comfort, mobility and even safety in the name of a socially constructed "femininity." I will never wear them. Does pole-dancing also signal this convergence of feminine beauty and authority? Cerise Morris, MONTREAL...
...With her went the freedom to lie in and to wear what she likes. And though she's only four, a subtler, if more profound freedom has begun eroding, too: the freedom to mix with people from other backgrounds. She's headed off to school, in her red-checkered uniform, with the kids of middle-class Londoners, "people like us." We pay fees, but low ones, so the school tends to attract parents in the media, the public sector and small businesses. Our local state schools were too rough, too crowded or too religious, and the school where...
...Jones does not look like your typical environmentalist. He doesn't wear Birkenstocks. He's African-American in a movement that tends to be overwhelmingly white. His background is in civil-rights activism - specifically prison reform - a cause he champions in Oakland, Calif. But Jones, the head of the non-profit Green For All and the author of the new book The Green-Collar Economy, could represent the future of environmentalism in America and a way for the movement to survive and even thrive through the coming recession. "The solution for the environment and the economy will be the same...
...sleazy—altruism has not come without its prices, though. For example, basic t-shirts, which come in any number of colors, materials, and neck shapes, are sold for an average of $20. Plain socks run around $10, and unisex jeans (that only anorexic 12-year-olds can wear) are upwards of $70. Despite its higher prices, American Apparel’s concept has worked. The brand has become increasingly popular and mainstream, and some of its original hipster fans are loathe to hear its now-ubiquitous name.With the U.S. economy tanking and a worldwide recession pending, it?...
Selling tickets, says Pitches president Annie E. P. Stone ’10, is difficult, especially in the spring when the novelty has started to wear off even for new freshmen. “Everyone on campus knows someone in an a cappella group and they’re always being pestered to buy a ticket,” she explains...