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Whereas fair-trade coffee is pricier than the conventional stuff, Bass insists that Fair Indigo clothing is just as stylish as other brands and its quality is just as high?only minus the markup for the do-good aspect. This is possible, he says, because he has eliminated the middle man. Bass relies heavily on worker-owned cooperatives, which slashes layers of overhead, and works directly with the owners of non--co-op factories. Moreover, unlike many clothing brands, Fair Indigo has a minimal advertising budget, counting instead on word of mouth, and it sells directly to consumers instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fair-Trade Fashion | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

...mainstream note. As enjoyable as “Dancers in the Dust” is, it rises up like Shrek at movie’s end: triumphant, bursting with light, but never really changed. Calla’s a band that sounds like Snow Patrol after being mauled by Minus the Bear. Their Dinosaur Rock may occasionally feel tried and archaic, but at least it’s a different beast...

Author: By Elsa S. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Calla - "Strength in Numbers" (Beggars Banquet) | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...suspect that Obama's aim is to rebuild the bonfire of Howard Dean's grass-roots campaign, minus the scream. But raging infernos don't just happen. First comes courage. Dean never would have had his bonfire if he hadn't opposed the invasion of Iraq in clear, plain, inspiring English. Even then, Dean had trouble stoking the fire: the campaign was failing long before his fatal Iowa mating call. It had become a campaign cult, too enamored with itself, with too much blabber about the money being raised on the Web and not enough about issues other than Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Build a Bonfire | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...were expecting somewhere between a B-plus and an A-minus, and this was somewhere between an A-minus and an A,” David Pilbeam, the Ford professor of human evolution and an author of the report, said after the meeting...

Author: By Johannah S. Cornblatt and Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faculty Welcomes Faust at Meeting | 2/14/2007 | See Source »

...Kyle Dowd's lawsuit, it alleges that Curtis purposely failed the student after the rape case was made public. Curtis told her students they would be graded on three class papers and class participation, with each counting 25% of the final grade. Dowd received a C-plus and C-minus on two papers before the case came to light. He received an F in class participation for missing the last month of class, according to an email Curtis sent to Dowd. Dowd says he had to miss five classes because he was meeting with attorneys in the case. Another lacrosse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teacher Support for the Duke Players | 1/6/2007 | See Source »

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