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...While admittedly a difficult field to enter, Harvard is beginning to make strides in the fashion industry. One such up-and-comer is Tracy A. Fong ’04. Fong opened her boutique, Trace, in Hong Kong two years ago, and already her company is seeing revenues in the six figures. Sarah E. Johnston ’03, formerly a jewelry designer at David Yurman, is now focused exclusively on her own jewelry line SISU, which has seen meager but successful sales for the past two years. And it doesn’t stop with alumni. Anotnio A. Pino...
...darkened Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall, an audience of Harvard students and art connoisseurs from other universities watched a video of naked women pulling long strips of white paper out of their vaginas. The film, titled “Interior Scroll—The Cave,” was part of a presentation by visual and performance artist Carolee Schneemann yesterday afternoon. During her lecture, called “Disruptive Consciousness,” she showed and spoke about her work, from paintings and photographs to sculptures and short videos. The Harvard College Women’s Center invited Schneemann...
...leading experts on international economics presented visions of China’s past and future to a packed Fong Auditorium on Friday night, projecting what may lie in store for one of the world’s largest and fastest growing economies. Maier Professor of Political Economy Benjamin M. Friedman ’66 began the event, titled “The Chinese Economy: Trade and Investment,” by focusing on the social and political implications of China’s standard-of-living increases over the past 25 years. “It is very clear that...
...mistreatment of restaurant workers at a number of well-known eateries has recently prompted public outrage. At Saigon Grill, Ollie's and Jing Fong in New York City, delivery workers walked off the job in protest of wage and tip policies. More than two dozen city restaurants have been sued over the past year, and legal action has also been taken against restaurants in Florida, Kentucky, New Jersey and Rhode Island. "We have in our restaurant community a great many ethnic restaurants owned and operated by people for whom English is not their first language," says Chuck Hunt, Executive Vice...
...entails so many civilian deaths and economic dependence, is there any wonder that it is met with resistance and failure? It is time for a shift from the Bush Administration's vague, rhetorical emphasis on freedom to more concrete markers of democracy: human rights, peace and citizen participation. Jocelyn Fong, Phoenix...