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...crucial first step is to lower costs, inventory and manufacturing infrastructure to levels more in line with demand. Overzealous production had left the company with millions of dollars' worth of unwanted stock by mid-2008. Some of the work was already under way: Crocs has shed 32% of jobs since 2007, shuttering factories, paring its distribution network and cutting its inventory in half over the past couple of years. That's helped nudge Crocs' stock close to $7, but for it "to move higher, [the company] ultimately needs to become profitable," says Mitch Kummetz, a senior research analyst at Wisconsin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Crocs Be More Than a One-Hit Wonder? | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...wind (hey, this was the pre-financial-crisis era, everyone was doing it) and transferred. I had no specific direction, and only cursorily ranked my preferences on the transfer application. Is experiencing the uncertainty of Housing Day for a second time cheating the system? Maybe. But was it worth it? You betcha.Junior year found me in Lowell. Ah, the model House of the entire system. As a transfer, I had the luck of ending up in a senior double (while my fellow natural-born Lowellian juniors still languished in maze-like walkthroughs). Once again I quickly adjusted to the quirks...

Author: By JAMES A. MCFADDEN, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tale of a River House Nomad | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

SitesALIVE! has collected 75 semesters’ worth of adventures and expeditions...

Author: By Christen B. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bringing the High Seas Home | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...trying to help it. And then there was the matter of what he called COIN mathematics. If there are 10 Taliban and you kill two, how many do you have left? Eight, perhaps. Or there might be two, because six of the remaining eight decide it's just not worth fighting anymore. Or you might have 20 because the brothers and cousins of the two dead fighters decide to take vengeance. "When I am asked what approach we should take in Afghanistan," General Stanley McChrystal concluded, "I say humility." (See pictures of a photographer's personal journey through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan Controversy: Less Than Meets the Eye | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...shame that smoke and puffery have obscured McChrystal's excellent speech. Those who speak of winning or losing in Afghanistan are using a primordial vocabulary. But the essential humanity at the heart of the counterinsurgency strategy - the idea that we succeed if we work at helping people - makes it worth trying. As the man said, this is about humility. In the 21st century, real power may be all about figuring out the right place to dig a well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan Controversy: Less Than Meets the Eye | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

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