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What if a missing person's sister wants his gifts under the tree, and his brother can't bear seeing them? She should wrap the presents but put them in a closet to avoid upsetting her brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Empty Seat | 11/27/2005 | See Source »

...have to be all about lower marginal costs and higher profits—they can also be about their people and the ecosystem. And if Chouinard’s business model ever sounds dubious or runs contrary to what you learned in Ec 10, just open your closet and take a long look at your Patagonia fleece jacket.Unfortunately, Chouinard’s nuggets of entrepreneurial wisdom are buried within 260 long pages of hackneyed stories and uninspired one-liners. For each interesting tidbit (managers share the same working space as other employees to promote a sense of equality), Chouinard felt...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Patagonia: Warm and Fuzzy, Like a Fleece | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

...people who prefer to stay in and watch a movie,” co-president Ryan J. “Trini” Abraham ’06 said. “We’re going to have clean fun: no alcohol and no seven minutes in the closet.” The night started out casually—the Mather House Council provided popcorn, candy and hot chocolate. A group of students played Trivial Pursuit in the back of the dining hall. And at midnight, the council paid for taxis to shuttle students to IHOP. Alas, no students...

Author: By Anna L. Tong, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mather Slumber Party a Snooze | 11/14/2005 | See Source »

...insights into this episode:First, the book sheds light on Lowell’s own complicated attitude toward homosexuality. Wright never suggests that Lowell himself was anything but straight-as-an-arrow. “It’s very facile and easy to say that these homophobes are closet homosexuals, because that’s what all the pop psychology says,” Wright told an audience of about a dozen at the Coop on Tuesday. But Wright argues that Lowell felt embarrassed that his own poet-sister, Amy, was a cigar-smoking lesbian who took long, chauffeured...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Writing the Wrong | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

Cambridge’s popular vintage store, The Garment District, could easily be mistaken for a drag show dressing room. Or RuPaul’s closet. But a soap factory? Probably not. However, the warehouse-like store best known for its eccentric style and $1.50 per pound clothing is actually housed in a former soap factory. The walls have long since been covered in fuchsia paint and Led Zeppelin posters, but according to the store’s co-owner, Brooke Fletcher, the building is “the last of its kind...

Author: By Kathryn M. Goldsmith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Truth About the Garment District | 11/2/2005 | See Source »

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