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...retirement benefits--might even have seemed inadequate. With operations in 28 countries and claims of having nearly a million members, the Conservancy that McCormick was running was, after all, the nonprofit equivalent of a multinational. But it turned out that McCormick had also received a $75,000 sign-on bonus, $75,000 to cover living expenses, a $1.7 million loan to buy a new house and a no-strings-attached discretionary fund to use toward finishing pet projects...
Those start-up difficulties have been smoothed out, and because Lewis' embroiderers earn more than they would get at a factory, the enterprise attracts the best talent. The workers also are paid a monthly bonus of around 8% and a larger one at the Vietnamese New Year, roughly equal to two-thirds of their monthly salary. Each year the designer takes the 120 sewers in Ho Chi Minh City on an all-expenses-paid weekend vacation...
...missteps. Mark and Roger’s introspective “What You Own” seems flat; it has lost the grit of the original recording. Several verses of the otherwise serviceable “La Vie Boheme” are inexplicably rearranged. The soundtrack also includes the bonus track “Love Heals,” written by Jonathan Larson for an organization promoting AIDS education while he was writing “Rent.” Sadly, the track is cheesy, uneven in pace, and simply out of place. A tribute to Jonathan Larson...
...BONUS ROUND: If you’re a girl, take a shot just for watching the bonus featurette entitled “The Casting Lounge”—it’s just four minutes of screen tests for women rubbing their lathered-up breasts against a window! Go on, ladies—you deserve...
...Film Studies. Some students consider the open-endedness of the Environmental Studies track to be liberating. Charlotte B. Winthrop ’08 explains: “The freedom to make your own plan of study isn’t a burden—it’s a bonus. I’m really excited to pick and choose those courses that interest me.” Danielle Travers ’05 concurs: “Designing my own curriculum was one of the best parts of the experience. It helped me to focus my studies on what...