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...still is now, a home away from home. But while Rose Hill marks where my roots lie, Harvard Yard marks where I found myself—not so much different as I was before, but more self-assured than I’ve ever been.I still wear Fordham apparel around campus, and I still follow the Rams in Atlantic 10 basketball and Patriot League football. Later this summer, I’ll serve as a groomsman at my brother Tom’s wedding at Fordham’s University Chapel. This time, when I see the family and they...

Author: By John R. Hein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PARTING SHOTS: I Am a Cram, a Cram I Am: Learning to Love Crimson Sports | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...great Washington insiders. Baldridge is probably best remembered for the Malcolm Baldridge award given to outstanding businesses or nonprofits, but he had a fascinating life. His father was a Nebraska congressman, and Baldridge went on to become head of Scovill, which makes fasteners for much of the world?s apparel. His biography notes: "Baldrige worked during his boyhood as a ranch hand and earned several awards as a professional team roper on the rodeo circuit. He was a Professional Rodeo Man of the Year in 1980 and was installed in the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Way to Stamp Out the Red/Blue Divide | 6/1/2006 | See Source »

...market, though, does not need the majority of consumers to profess a higher morality. For instance, many apparel manufacturers, like the much-maligned Nike, conceded to the demands of a small, but vociferous, anti-sweat shop campaign and started monitoring their sub-contractors. In doing so, the companies resuscitated lagging profits and motivated a much larger group of (normally indifferent) consumers to buy brands that promised adequate labor conditions. This story shows that consumers want to inject some moral vigor into their largely materialist lives—and that businesses respond. From “hormone-free?...

Author: By Will E. Johnston | Title: Libertarian Environmentalist? | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...BREAK Gregory and Hewson (with a little help from Bono) launched Edun, a socially conscious apparel line for men and women, in the spring of 2005 with a mission to bring fair employment and trade to the attention of the fashion industry. They also wanted their clothes to look good. "We want it to be a business model that people will follow. People want fair trade, but they don't want hair shirts," says Hewson, who is involved in Edun Live, a project that aims to provide immediate job growth in African communities through a merchandising program selling organic cotton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Who: The Eco-Guide | 4/20/2006 | See Source »

...year," the equivalent of about nine minutes of sales, says Terry Jorde, president and CEO of Country Bank USA in Cando, N.D. The fear, says Lawrence White, a professor of economics at New York University, is that the company will do to retail banking what it has done in apparel and groceries. Indeed, the application Wal-Mart filed would allow it to request a changed business plan through the FDIC without necessarily going through the entire process again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wal-Mart's Bank Shot | 4/17/2006 | See Source »

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