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Responding to fears that Harvard may reinstate its licensing contract with Russell Athletic—a sportswear company accused by labor groups of mistreating its workers—Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement brought a former garment worker to campus last Thursday in order to speak about the company’s violations of worker rights. Harvard ended its licensing agreement with Russell Athletics last December, as the company faced allegations that it shut down a Honduran factory because of workers’ attempts to unionize. Yet Rick Calixto, director of the Harvard University Trademark Program, wrote...
...hopes to have her own line of formal wear one day, says a week of made-in-Italy experience will go a long way. "I've realized that tailoring is essential to design," she says. "You understand here how much work goes into a suit, seeing how a garment is constructed. You can design the weirdest shape you want, but you must also know what should go where." So as for il taschino, Ter Meulen now knows not only where it goes but how to get it there...
...leader Mullah Omar demanded to be let into a shrine containing relics of Prophet Muhammad: hair from his beard, and a cloak he is said to have worn. Seizing the cloak, Mullah Omar went to the roof of the shrine and slid his hands into the sleeves, holding the garment before him for everyone to see. To the crowd watching it looked like he had gone into the relic chamber and come out transformed into the Prophet himself...
Most of the Olympians have college or graduate degrees and worked in white-collar Manhattanite jobs from which they did not expect to be booted. They range in age from the 23-year-old fired from his very first job to the 61-year-old garment industry worker who blames the Chinese for putting her fabric company out of business. They have been unemployed for an average of four months and most of them showed up alone. "Who am I going to bring?" asks Erika Garcia, an out-of-work contract lawyer. "My friends still have jobs...
...news editor. The Huffsters see what they do as curating the news: finding the good stuff from other sources and artfully exhibiting it for the enrichment of the more educated, liberal news consumer. And yet the site's most viewed stories often have to do with the trivial - every garment in Michelle Obama's wardrobe gets its due - and the racy. It's improbable that anything like the wildly popular HuffPo slide show of Pamela Anderson's disturbingly shaped nipple would be featured on, say, Politico...