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...crayon-scribbled artwork mingles with arrow signs beckoning shoppers downstairs to the gymnasium, where smiling vendors volunteer information about their wares—those dresses are made from 100% organic materials and these handwoven handbags are actually made from recycled candy wrappers. On stage, a DJ spins a steady stream of feel-good tunes, the sounds of “Summer Nights” reverberating off the walls.It’s a far cry from the frenzied, bustling chaos of early autumn in New York City, whose Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, an eight-day whirlwind of runway shows...
...not—a savings account, a rainy-day fund, a fully usable financial umbrella for the kind of economic deluge in which we now find ourselves. But it is not that at all: The money in the endowment is investment capital. It is money that creates a revenue stream just as tuition and research funding are revenue streams...
...against blacks," says Hemeregildo Fernandez, a doctor in Yanga and one of the few blacks still living in town. His office is tucked on a narrow street that juts off the main square, where the rotund man with warm brown skin and salt-and-pepper hair receives a fluctuating stream of patients. The majority of the black Mexican population works in agriculture, fishing or construction, and while, like Fernandez, some have achieved notable positions in coastal towns, he says, "Most blacks have no economic power." (Read a story about the indigenous custom of bride-selling...
...Fair, which drew an additional 55 organizations, some of which offered employment opportunities to graduating seniors and graduate students who are poised to enter the job market during the worst economic recession since the 1930s. The Career Forum typically kicks off a frenetic fall e-recruiting season designed to stream line the job search process by staggering dozens of information sessions, resume drop deadlines, and interview prep sessions within the first few weeks of school. “It’s a good first step,” said Ingrid G. Akerlind ’10 of the fair...
...being the fashion industry, none of these ideas are exactly new. In 1999, 222-year-old Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., licensed its name to an Italian firm, which emblazons it on college-athlete-inspired T-shirts and sweatshirts, complete with fake school crests. National Geographic beat Field & Stream to the punch, launching menswear in 2005. And neither of them is even the most unlikely fashion patron. Kenny Chesney's a designer now, selling his Blue Chair Bay line in three locations in the South...