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...fixture in College life for years. Louie’s is one of the few alcohol vendors within walking distance of the Square. Thousands of students have come to rely on Louie’s for many of their beverage needs—everything from ice-cold forties to cheap champagne. Louie’s helps Harvard students persevere through the harsh Cambridge winters. But if the city of Cambridge has its way, buying from Louie’s on Friday nights may become one of the few Harvard traditions that actually comes...
Manga comics, printed as cheap, multivolume paperbacks and sold at major bookstores, have ignited graphic-novel sales around the world. In the U.S. last year Manga racked up some $100 million, almost double 2002's sales, according to ICv2, a pop-culture trade publication. The two dominant U.S. publishers of manga, Tokyopop and Viz, will ramp up their 2004 title count to more than 300 between them. Later this year DC Comics plans to launch a manga imprint called...
...bras, nobody can compete with China." Right you are, Mr. Yang, which is why the U.S.'s uneasy embrace of globalization is chafing against China's emergence as the world's workshop. China rules in stocking stuffers, but it's climbing the technology ladder too. Its huge pool of cheap labor - up to 500 million peasants are expected to migrate to cities in search of factory work over the next two decades - should provide 20 more years of growth for an economy that already produces a quarter of the world's television sets and washing machines and half...
...more than half of China's exports. That has made U.S. businesses especially wary of American protectionism, and small U.S. firms trying to compete with China receive little sympathy from their larger cousins. One justified criticism of China is its lack of workers' rights, which contributes to its cheap labor. In the southern boomtown of Shenzhen, a hundred workers who package computer keyboards and mice that they say bear the IBM logo walked off the job in December to demand the legal minimum wage of $73 a month and the legal overtime rate of 66? an hour (instead...
...clause into the contract that gave Keller veto rights on other restaurants in the development. Block didn't want to see Keller's brand tarnished by sharing space with a franchise. He had a $10 million to $12 million investment to protect--fancy New York restaurants don't come cheap. Keller helped line up an all-star team: Masa Takayama from the $300-a-sitting Ginza Sushi-Ko in Los Angeles, Gray Kunz (Lespinasse in New York) and Charlie Trotter (Charlie Trotter's in Chicago). Jean-Georges Vongerichten (Jean Georges and Vong in New York) made up the fifth...