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...first person who ever mentioned it to me was Helen Vendler when I was interviewing for her freshman seminar.” A familiar face among the cast of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s Mainstage productions, Hill is the 2008 recipient of the Radcliffe Doris Cohen Levi Prize. The medal is awarded by the Harvard Office for the Arts to “the Harvard undergraduate who combines talent and energy with outstanding enthusiasm for musical theater at Harvard.” Hill, who is currently playing the title character in this semester’s production...
What's the solution? Li & Fung is moving up the food chain, becoming a brand-managing powerhouse. This year it is on track to sell more than $200 million of licensed goods like Levi's Red Tab and Signature tops and Disney plush toys--a business many analysts expect to grow to $1 billion by 2007. In August it paid $124 million for the U.S.-based Briefly Stated, which produces pajamas, underwear and T shirts for such diverse brands as Professional Bull Riders Inc. and Catwoman. Eradicating the middleman role for some products could open up other opportunities...
...poverty was more compelling than the candidate. He didn't go in for big, Bill Clinton-style shows of emotion; he simply interviewed people and let them tell their stories. At the Mount Levi Full Gospel Baptist Church in Canton, Miss., he spoke with poultry workers who live in a trailer park beside the chicken plant, as many as 10 or 12 stuffed into a single trailer with two beds. In West Helena, Ark., he met with home-health-care workers who earn little more than minimum wage from the state department of health-which won't let them work...
...that lets Willis walk away, John McClane--like, from disasters that might have destroyed other careers: Hudson Hawk. Talking-baby movies. Movies with Matthew Perry in them. Investing in Planet Hollywood. Giving his kids odd names. Endorsing George Bush. People just don't abandon Bruce Willis. Despite the cuffed Levi's 501 blues he stills wears, he somehow stays with the times--Pulp Fiction, Friends, the Beavis and Butt-head movie, Sin City. It's because he never put himself on a different level from us. "Could you ever picture yourself hanging out with Sylvester Stallone? Could you picture hanging...
...comes in the form of Levi Richards, a lean wide receiver/defensive back out of the small southern Illinois town of Newton...