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...socially conscious. Its line of Inara spa products is produced by women's cooperatives in the remote state of Maranhăo in northeastern Brazil, and its amethyst-and-garnet geometric drop earrings are made at a Nepalese technical school in a community consisting largely of underprivileged families from the lower castes. The workers at one of the company's small Costa Rican cooperatives?where each sewer and cutter of the brand's twill pants and chinos helps make financial decisions?turned an exceptional profit last year and were able to give themselves a bonus of three months...
...says.And when it came to evaluating their elected representatives, whites continued to remain more conscious of race, she found.As long as blacks were confident that their representative was responsive, they were equally satisfied with him or her. Whites, Gay found, tended to evaluate their representative lower if he was not white, even after adjusting for party and other differences.These are the questions she first started asking as a doctoral student at Harvard, where she won the University’s Toppan Prize for her political science dissertation that she completed in 1997.Isabela Mares met Gay at graduate school...
...United States on the other. Every society has its own dynamic history of progress or regress that must be considered on its own terms. Living on less than a dollar a day isn’t so bad if your cost of living is much lower. Who is better educated: the illiterate African who can recite epic poetry and oral history for days without pause, or the literate American who never reads anything but comics and the McDonald’s menu? Residents of many so-called “developing” nations such as Nigeria consistently score higher...
...elite and the pressures of the blue-collar man. By day, he is the CEO and president of Wayne Enterprises, one of the most efficiently run multi-billion dollar corporations in the world. By night, he deals head-on with the types of criminal activity that plague so many lower-class communities. He understands you, whoever you are and whatever part of our glorious nation you come from...
...that in a porn house on [Manhattan's] Lower East Side. It was the only theater I could get. It ran for a year. People would come. In fact, the same people would come every Friday - and they'd all be smoking grass in the johns. The guy who ran the theater was so happy. He was making money left and right. He didn't want it to ever stop...