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First, they want to create an endowment to increase funding for student groups. Nearly all students agree that student groups are under-funded. They do some of the most admirable work on campus, but often on a shoe-string budget. The small grants from the UC Finance Committee don’t go far, meaning that there is little, if any, sizable funding available for student groups. Magnus and Tom’s goal is for the UC itself to raise one million dollars from alumni, which would be matched by the College. Such an endowment would generate approximately...
...Sweat’s flagship product—a shoe that closely resembles Converse’s Chuck Taylor high-top sneaker—was priced at $40. No Sweat places a detailed list of the benefits earned by the Indonesian factory workers who make the shoes and challenges Nike, which owns Converse, to do the same...
...somebody's inner life. In this diverting follow-up to 2003's Diary of a Worm, also by Cronin and Bliss, Spider confesses his greatest fears--Daddy Longlegs, vacuum cleaners and people with big feet--and shares his grandpa's secret of longevity: Never fall asleep in a shoe. He talks about his unlikely friendship with Fly, whose forebears used to be the enemies of spiders. "Things are different now," says Spider, although Fly sometimes accidentally gets stuck in his web, to the horror of Fly's mother. Worm, his other best friend and fellow diarist, makes amusing cameo appearances...
...never dreamed it would become a runaway success. Now Burch, the mother of three boys and a fashion public relations veteran, cannot keep up with the demand for her'70s-style embroidered tunics and neo-geo print shirts. With three stores, a handbag line and an upcoming shoe line under her belt, Burch has unknowingly launched an empire...
Back at the Via della Spiga store, the lunchtime rush is showing no sign of tailing off. Alberto Addis is straightening a shiny alligator bag that a customer has left askew, moving an eel-skin shoe back to its right place. There is no icy sense of ?please do not touch? here; everything has been handled. ?It's always like this,? Addis says. ?Our customer, maybe she comes to buy, maybe to touch...