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Anthony Y. Strike ’78 graduated from Harvard Business School in 1982, worked for Bain & Company in Boston and now is president of several companies that license technology to textile mills and garment manufacturers and franchise One Hour Martinizing Dry Cleaning stores. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife Katie and their six children...
...This year's trendy color for burkas is a pale sky blue," reports TIME's Tim McGirk from Afghanistan. This week on TIME.com McGirk writes about Afghan women, their complicated relationship to their signature head-to-toe garment and how their lives are changing: time.com/mcgirk...
...streets of Kabul, you can see something these days that has not been glimpsed there for almost five years?women's faces. Now that the Taliban has fled the city, a few brave women have shed the burka?the head-to-toe garment, to Western eyes a kind of body bag for the living, made mandatory by the defeated religious leadership. Men sometimes look in astonishment at these faces, as if they were comets or solar eclipses. So do other women. From the moment in 1996 that the Taliban took power, it sought to make women not just obedient...
...says, to less than $150. His nine children dress in rags, and his own flowing salwar kameez is so threadbare it has split at both elbows. He stands barefoot in his freshly plowed field with a football-sized lump of opium seeds gathered into the front of his garment. With flicks of his right hand, he scatters the seeds across the clumped earth. "I decided to plant poppies as soon as the Taliban left," he explains. After all, who will stop...
Speakers noted, in particular, the role played by American universities in helping the workers to acheive their goals. The pressure the universities put on their garment suppliers to enforce their codes of conduct forced the Mexican government to “open up its ears,” said Huberto Juarez Nunez, an expert on the development of export industries in Mexico...