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Pressure to conform to normative body types is certainly no longer restricted to athletes. Inside Abercrombie and Fitch, customers are greeted by a male chest—no face, no smile, just a chest. If a G.I. Joe from 1964 was blown up to full size, it would have a 32-inch waist and a 12-inch biceps. Today’s G.I.Joe has a 29-inch waist inches and 16 1/2-inch biceps...
...Brattle Street for 107 years. Financial troubles led the once popular Wursthaus restaurant to disappear after 79 years. And just a few years ago, Harvard Square’s Tasty restaurant, still a legend in Harvard lore, was replaced by that symbol of corporate decadence—Abercrombie and Fitch...
...many clothing stores, arriviste restaurants and watch shops does the Square need? Abercrombie and Fitch may make money, but in 20 years no one will know or care whether it still reigns prominently where JFK St. intersects the Square. Some shops, though, remind everyone who walks down Mass. Ave. what Cambridge is. When a single one of them closes, the city loses a piece of its history. If Bartley’s Burger Cottage were ever to close, for example, not even the most glitzy of gift shops could plug the hole in the hearts of Harvard?...
...have about 14 pairs of exactly the same Abercrombie and Fitch underwear. So, I think that’s unlikely to be shocking...
...subset of socially responsible investing, microlending has a compelling "double bottom line": make a profit and alleviate global poverty. Pension funds, university endowments and large corporations have been sniffing around for opportunities, but all--understandably--want to see good track records first. That's starting to happen. Moody's, Fitch, and Standard & Poor's have begun either to rate microfinance transactions like bond issuances or to rate the institutions themselves. A Fitch report even detailed how MFIs in Bolivia fared better than commercial banks in the aftermath of that country's recent financial crisis. Meanwhile, Unitus, a new source...