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Designer Jonathan Ive, who shaped the original iMac and iPod, has gone as minimalist as possible with this machine. There is no separate computer tower or power supply; everything is contained in the display. CDs and DVDs slot in on the side of the screen. The power button is on the back. The speakers are hidden on the bottom, designed to bounce sound off your desk. Throw in the optional Bluetooth wireless keyboard and mouse, and the whole thing needs only one cable, the power cord. A minor gripe is that those don't come as standard; nor does Apple...
...Discount protesters at the convention are being offered at the Museum of Sex, if they wear a PEACEFUL POLITICAL ACTIVIST button issued by the New York City government...
...string) and itty-bitty graphic Ts. Boys have opted for baggy denim, athletic jerseys and hooded sweatshirts. But the de facto uniform is finally changing. Teens describe their new look as "simple" or "clean" rather than preppy. Whatever name you give the trend, students are incorporating tweeds, tartans and button-downs into their back-to-school wardrobes...
...expand their customer base and achieve mega-brand status along the lines of Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger. Jay-Z, who founded Rocawear with Damon Dash, even sang about the sartorial shift: "I don't wear jerseys, I'm 30-plus./Give me a crisp pair of jeans ... Button up." (Concertgoers quickly followed his lead, he says.) Dash, Rocawear's CEO, isn't a fan of the new trend. "This is the dress-shirt winter. I'll just stay warm and still while that winter blows by," he says. But he knows dressier styles are an important way to build...
...waking up to an increasingly atomized reality. "A man like Chirac still lives in a republican world," says novelist Michaël Sebban. "When he's confronted by anti-Semitism all he can do is affirm the republican values of equality and fraternity. But it's like pressing a button that doesn't work anymore." Especially in the socially underprivileged banlieues, where Jewish-Muslim tension is highest, the appeal to shared citizenship is more apt to reap mockery than reverence. "Being a citizen of France used to give everyone a kind of bulletproof vest, but now it's fallen...