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...presidency was Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, and he had been President before. Since then, four third-party candidates have gotten more than 5% of the vote. And each of them had something Bloomberg lacks: a popular issue that the major parties wouldn't touch. In 1924, the gop ran Calvin Coolidge, the most conservative President of the 20th century, and the most boring. But his Democratic opponent, John W. Davis, was pretty conservative too. And so Robert La Follette, the only progressive in the race, won 17% of the vote. In 1968, the Democrats were pro--civil rights...
...decades, South Korean entrepreneur Kim Cheul Young has struggled to keep his manufacturing business from unraveling. Kim's company, Sunghwa Trading, makes socks for familiar Western brands including Calvin Klein and Gap. His is a business that competes on cost and not much else, which is why the majority of the world's sock supply comes from countries such as China and Vietnam where labor costs are low. Five years ago Kim opened a factory in Qingdao in northeast China to combat intensifying competition from Chinese garmentmakers, but that move wasn't enough to keep his profit margins from eroding...
...says Elliot Lifson, vice chairman of Montreal-based Peerless Clothing, which has outsourced 70% of its production to plants in China, India and Vietnam over the past three years. Once the loonie passed 80¢, the $500 million company, which has exclusive licensing agreements with top designers, including Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Michael Kors, exporting to the U.S. became problematic. "Our margins would have been eaten up," says Lifson. Peerless continues to make its most expensive garments at a Montreal plant that employs 2,000 because of its proximity to the company's main distribution center in St. Albans...
...Daniel Bays, head of the Asian Studies program at Calvin College in Michigan, argues that China's restrictions on Christianity aren't necessarily a fear of religion, but of the possible threat to the Party's leadership that comes from any organized group. "On the whole the authorities don't really care what people believe," he says. "What they are afraid of [is people] getting together and meeting in secret and not registering [with the government]. It doesn't bother them that people believe in Jesus. It bothers them that they don't want to register and they...
...YORK CITY Magnificent Jewels Pearls from the collection of Kelly and Calvin Klein (here) and other rare treasures will be auctioned off at Sotheby...