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Mnookin wrote the book in about a year, though he says this was only possible because of his previous coverage and extensive notes culled from reporting on the scandal for Newsweek. “I didn’t need to start from scratch,” he says, “there was a lot I could build on right away...
...assistant captain, who prior to yesterday’s scratch against Boston College had missed just one game in his Harvard career, was sidelined by an undisclosed injury sustained during the Crimson’s 8-6 win over Princeton Saturday evening...
Moreover, having a cleaning lady—scratch that, cleaning person—in to fix all this would not only deflate my self-esteem, it would probably violate federal workplace regulations. Any halfway diligent cleaning employee would be quickly overcome by the sheer volume of dried, unidentifiable fluids coating my floor, leaving even more fluid behind as he or she wretched out the door. Actually, I doubt that. But still, I would hesitate to raise demand even higher with my hard-earned campus cash for what has to be the worst job in the world...
...time, New Balance has proved that it's possible to manufacture in the U.S. and compete. The company's plant in Brighton, Mass., for instance, features robotics and a high-tech molding process that can produce an outsole in 12 seconds--allowing New Balance to make a sneaker from scratch and fill orders rapidly as they come in. Another advantage Davis sees: better relationships with retailers. New Balance's domestic factories play a key role in filling special orders for hard-to-find sizes and widths and give the company more flexibility to help out independent retailers--a lucrative niche...
...Despite the biggest and most costly peacekeeping operation in U.N. history, Cambodia remains a chaotic reminder of the difficulties of successfully imposing democracy through force, a lesson being relearned from scratch in Iraq. If Cambodians are, as Short says, "oddly reluctant" to analyze the violence and corruption that plagues their society, it is because most are still too busy trying to survive it. Pol Pot is gone, but history is a nightmare from which his beleaguered compatriots are still trying to awake...