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...often has little leisure time available to take advantage of these unsung spaces.The perpetual dearth of students using Lowell House’s art room provides just one example of a venue suffering from the busy student schedules. “Admittedly, last year we had a number of workshops,” Moore says. “We had a make-your-own furniture workshop and a cartooning workshop. This year, I scaled down on the formal workshops because I found they took a lot of front-end planning and also buying of materials and several times the turnout...

Author: By Eric W. Lin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Finding Rooms for Art | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

Odhaib opened her new workshop Feb. 23, and it's been busy. She managed to procure a contract with the Ministry of Health to make hospital gowns and bed sheets. And Odhaib says she is close to getting another sewing project from the government, this one for 1,000 new Iraqi flags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mother Teresa of Baghdad | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

Odhaib recently decided to help them help themselves. She has taken her aid for the displaced one step further with an employment initiative. She managed to get 60 sewing machines through donations and set up a small workshop, which employs 100 women from displaced families. Odhaib sees the program as a way to help the families earn a lilttle income and find some dignity until a better solution emerges. She knows firsthand it can work. When Odhaib's husband wound up jobless in the early 1990s, she supported the family by opening a small tailoring shop in Baghdad. At first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mother Teresa of Baghdad | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...requirements for PHE, she notes, include learning to teach a 50-minute workshop nearly word for word...

Author: By Julia M. Spiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scrambling to Serve | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

...trumpeted to be. Many were just journeymen, working on component parts upon which they inscribed their names not as Monet-like signatures but as part of quality-control procedures. The names worked as premodern barcodes. Shoddy platters, censers, stone carvings and so on could be traced back to the workshop that produced them, and the artisans could be punished accordingly. The inscriptions also worked as brands, and forgeries of luxury wares were rampant. Fake Gucci bags are just a historical extension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Mall | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

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