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...Most eco-friendly bamboo tableware is too drab for festive occasions, but not this Bambu Lacquerware, available at Branchhome.com for $12 each and up depending on size. Made in Vietnam from 100% organically grown bamboo (deemed green because it grows so fast), the bowls are coated in a natural lacquer and painted in six bright colors...
...white-and more than a few are Asian. If race-based remedies are supplanted by class-based remedies, the number of African Americans attending elite universities, for one thing, will fall. Tom Kane, a Harvard economist, told me, "You'd need an economic affirmative-action program six times the size of the current racial preferences to [benefit] an equivalent number of African Americans." There's another step that would reduce racial and economic injustice: eliminate "legacy" admissions to colleges. Legacies-that is, the children of alumni-represent a huge chunk of students in most fancy schools, about 1 of every...
...Stop trying to hide; we know it's you. But Leonardo DiCaprio is such a resourceful actor, and such a magnetic movie presence, that he can persuasively slip into the character of Danny Archer, a diamond smuggler from Zimbabwe who's on the trail of a rock the size of Kilimanjaro. Blood Diamond, the fitfully engrossing drama from director Edward Zwick (Glory, The Last Samurai), links Danny with the diamond's discoverer, Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou, ever noble), whose family has been seized in the brutal 1990s Sierra Leone civil war and sent to a refugee camp...
Mark Gottfredson, a partner at consultancy Bain & Co., studied that subject at 75 companies in 12 industries and found that as firms became more complicated, growth slowed. Companies lowest in complexity grew 1.7 times as fast as their average competitor, even when taking firm size into account. "Complexity creep is the most natural thing in the world, especially in retail," says Gottfredson. "The challenge is that while every one of those decisions seems to make sense, underneath you start building up enormous amounts of systemic cost...
...apartment complex’s present North Harvard Street location. A few critics lambasted the Board’s plans, exemplified by five rough sketches of buildings on easels, including a proposal to double the amount of units to 400. The availability of parking, the development’s size, and planners’ optimistic estimates of a 2008 ground-breaking drew ire, garnering applause from the crowd when voiced. “The Charlesview community is at odds with itself,” said Allston resident Tim McHale. “This is Harvard pulling the strings as puppeteer...