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...flowers, nature, sunsets?before downloading them to the computer. The next stop is the main printing area: two warehouse-size rooms occupied by 10 wooden counters, each the length of a billiard table, that run along one wall. Here the screens will be laid out for printing. Colors are chosen from a line of plastic jugs and are mixed in a special machine. "Before, we mixed by hand, pouring this in and that in. Very trial and error," he admits. "Now we have the computer do all the percentages of chemicals and colors...
...dozen engineers hunch over computer screens, carefully devising the patterns for each shoe?some entail as many as 70 different pieces. Down the hall, the modelist carves up each style's last by hand, a technique few manufacturers actually have in-house. Finally, the leather pieces will be chosen by the company expert, Antonio Ripani, who presides over more than 20 million sq. ft. of hides?calfskin, anaconda, gazelle, ostrich, crocodile?in a giant storeroom alongside the factory. After the patterns are cut by hand with an X-Acto knife, the shoes will be stitched and molded and blown...
While Harvard has received prior gifts from other Saudi Arabian and Middle Eastern donors, there is no common formula for accepting or rejecting a gift. Rather, Harvard has chosen to evaluate the gifts, in accordance with the University’s extensive gift policy, on a case-by-case basis...
...council will meet tomorrow with Bok, who is making his first known visit to campus since being chosen as interim president by the Harvard Corporation...
Gross answered that, though there have been no calendar changes since 1838, there’s still a chance that revisions will be made next year, but decisions will most likely be held until after a new long-term University president is chosen...