Word: rivoli
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Rivoli excels at making those sorts of unexpected connections. She even finds one between antiglobalization activists and free traders. The opportunities opened up by trade are vast, she argues, but free markets need the correcting mechanism of political activism to keep them in check. True economic progress needs them both. --By Jyoti Thottam
...made your T shirt?" A speaker at a 1999 Georgetown University student protest against sweatshops turned that question into an accusation. Pietra Rivoli, a professor of business, heard something more: a challenge to find the answer. A few weeks later, she bought a T shirt and began tracing its path from Texas cotton farm to Chinese factory to charity bin. The result is an engrossing new book, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy (Wiley; 254 pages...
Following a T shirt around the world is a gimmicky narrative device, but it frees Rivoli from the usual debate over global trade. She goes wherever the T shirt goes, and there are surprises around every corner. In China, Rivoli shows why a clothing factory, despite its harsh conditions, represents a step toward personal freedom for the women who work there. In the kaleidoscopic used-clothing bazaars of Tanzania, she realizes that "it is only in this final stage of life that the t-shirt will meet a real market," where the price of a shirt changes by the hour...
...world "Sweet Smell" so pungently defines was nearly in the past tense. The Broadway we glimpse under the opening credits reveals a street little like today's. The Trans-Lux Theatre, the Warner and Capital and Rivoli: all are gone. So are the roomy, stately Checker Cabs. The Palace Theatre, where the Herbie Temple sequence was shot, dropped vaudeville shortly after the picture was made. The Brill Building, Tin Pan Alley's Deco palace, still gleams, though it was never a residence; J.J.'s penthouse apartment, with its marble finishings, a Xanadu-size fireplace and a terrace that beckons frail...
...psychology more befitting a garrulous European uncle than a genius geek who spends his life hunched over a chessboard. During appetizers he enthralls the table with discourses on a diverse array of topics, including hot chocolate (the world's best is found at Cafe Angelica on the Rue de Rivoli in Paris), Kremlin politics ("Russia has no choice other than Lebed!") and his infant son Vadim--"I want to stay on top long enough for him to recognize his father as a champion...