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...students tour the factory floor, where they observe some of the 220 steps (and 20 hours) that go into making a single jacket. Some 1,500 suits a week are turned out, with prices ranging from $3,385 off the rack to $4,740 custom-made. In the silent hum of the manual assembly line, the students can see the 60 stitches that go into one buttonhole and watch the fabric being hand-cut with 13-in. scissors. Still, most of their time is spent, needle and thread in hand, in a brightly lit third-floor classroom overseen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Touch of Class | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...There are questions like, ‘Do you do sales tax?’ And I never had to deal with sales tax for any student things at Harvard,” Wang says. (The answer is yes, they did have to use sales tax for the silent auction...

Author: By Rebecca A. Schuetz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Artists Bring in the Benjamins | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...scarce evidence," says Beijing-based lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan. "Even though they know it's illegal to force a confession by means of torture, the police still resort to it because it's hard for suspects to protect their own rights, and they don't have the right to keep silent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In China, Suspicious Jail Deaths on the Rise | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

Courtside Celtics tickets and luxurious weekend getaways were on the auction block at the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub last night for the Phillips Brooks House Association’s sixth annual Auction to Benefit the Summer Urban Program (SUP). The event featured a silent auction as well as a live auction conducted by guest auctioneer and musician Livingston Taylor—the brother of singer-songwriter James Taylor. With big ticket items including trips to San Francisco and tickets to games at Fenway garnering high bids, PBHA received considerable funding for its community service programs. The night?...

Author: By Ross S. Weinstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: PBHA’s Auction to Benefit SUP | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...hallway leading off of the Quincy JCR is a quiet one with muted white walls, a hushed brown carpet, and subdued maroon doors. Until you reach office #6—a door which, unlike its silent fellows, is covered with colorful photos, portraits, and bumper stickers which roar: “United for Peace, Divided in War,” “Hate is Not a Family Value” and “DARE to Speak Truth to Power.” Inside, surrounded on one side by a jam-packed floor-to-ceiling bookshelf, on the other...

Author: By Gulus Emre, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Timothy P. McCarthy | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

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