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Enter cozy mittens. Sherman says the company has sold about 3.5 million pairs since their October 2009 debut; thanks to the Olympics, 1.5 million have cleared the shelves since Feb. 1. But get this: Hudson's Bay does not make a dime off the phenomenon. Net proceeds from mitten sales go right to the Canadian Olympic Committee to fund athletes' programs. To date, Sherman says the mittens have generated $12 million in net proceeds. Does he regret not negotiating a cut? "Not at all," he says. "We entered into this to do the right thing." What's more, Sherman notes...
...also said that the translation of Islamic concepts into Chinese, a language with no monotheistic verbiage, poses a particular challenge. Several students, who did not attend the speech, said they felt well-informed about Islam already and found Harvard to be a religiously tolerant environment. Similarly, Professor David G. Mitten, faculty advisor to HIS, said that Harvard students and administration have upheld an actively sympathetic relationship with the Islamic community. “I don’t know of any cases where individuals have been victims of prejudice or discrimination,” he said. But he added that...
...grew up in Southeast Michigan in the past four decades, as I did, you were raised among reminders that things used to be better, once, before you came along. The empty factories. The abandoned blocks in Detroit. The grade-school U.S. maps with the retro pictures, on Michigan's mitten, of Model T's and '57 Chevys. The headlines from the 1970s read like the headlines of 2008: The mayor of Detroit was in trouble. The Lions were losing. And the auto industry was disappearing...
...Courage to Cut? McCain strode to the microphones a short time later in Freeland, Mich., a little town near the spot where the thumb of the Michigan mitten meets the palm. The state's economy is the weakest in the country, and McCain was there to visit one of the few bright spots, a Dow Corning plant devoted to solar-power technology...
...There are differences of opinion and emotions get high, but several more generations of Muslims go through Harvard and elsewhere, and we’re going to see change,” said Mitten, who converted to Islam 38 years ago. “Islam will move into the center of things like Christianity and Judaism, and there will be more understanding and cooperation...