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Jerry Rowland feels the dragon breathing down his neck. He's the CEO of National Textiles, a T-shirt maker in a state that has lost more than 37,000 textile jobs since the U.S. lifted quotas on Chinese imports two years ago. Unless Rowland's North Carolina workers suddenly become competitive with Chinese counterparts who earn just a few dollars a day, he fears his employees will be next. The plainspoken Southerner ticks off what he regards as China's unfair advantages: excessive government protection, an underpriced currency, cowed and underpaid workers, exports dumped below cost. If Washington...
...It’s a hell of a lot warmer!” said Rebecca E. Keegan ’04 of this year’s Game as she drank and chatted with friends in just a t-shirt...
Dartboard is all about school spirit, but she would prefer not to ride into New Haven with “F*** Yale” across her chest. Nor is Dartboard particularly fond of our other options—t-shirts with lewd and/or violent images all over them. One t-shirt depicts the Yale bulldog kneeling in front of John Harvard, his face at level with our mascot’s crotch. Another portrays John Harvard straddling a bottle of vodka. Dartboard can just imagine the devout Puritan turning in his grave...
Some of the t-shirts out there are also just plain arrogant. Dartboard almost bought one when she read the text: “What do Harvard and Yale students have in common? They both got into Yale!” The kid next to Dartboard mumbled, “Well I sure didn’t.” Several others confessed that they too had received Yale rejection letters. Is the t-shirt meant to make us appear conceited, or sarcastic...
...Mannersmith were to hold us to the very strictest standards, the average Harvard-Yale t-shirt probably wouldn’t pass muster. After all, she says, “the idea is to cheer and have spirit for your team without being nasty.” But if you’re really itching to break out that spirited “Yuck Fale” t-shirt, even Ms. Mannersmith allows that “this is your chance to be young and crazy, so go for it.” And since it will probably be freezing...