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...when she left her corporate marketing job to start Oovoo. The Malaysian-born entrepreneur traveled to Vietnam to investigate opportunities there. She was stunned by the styles in one of the handbag shops she visited. Less than a month later, Lewis was back in Vietnam, meeting in Ho Chi Minh City with the retailer, a woman who had a group of embroiderers working for her in many villages north of Hanoi. The two women partnered up, and designer Le Thi Hong Tu agreed to create a new line for Lewis, act as point person and oversee the embroiderers. Some...
...factory, the enterprise attracts the best talent. The workers also are paid a monthly bonus of around 8% and a larger one at the Vietnamese New Year, roughly equal to two-thirds of their monthly salary. Each year the designer takes the 120 sewers in Ho Chi Minh City on an all-expenses-paid weekend vacation...
...club closed, a 1991 Crimson article claimed “the club maintained an unsanitary ‘mattress room’ for sexual exploits and promoted the room in its newsletters.” Pi Eta alumni maintained ownership of the building until 1996, when fraternity Sigma Chi became a co-owner. But the cohabitation did not last. Pi Eta forced Sigma Chi out of the building in 2001, spurring a year-long lawsuit that led to Sigma Chi’s move to 1124 Mass. Ave. Afterward, Pi Eta sold the property to the Foundation for Civic Leadership...
...filled with the opportunity cost incurred by me not studying for my midterms, I still go, hoping that I can be there for That One Show.I’ve already missed said Show on two occasions. First time was 4th of July, 2001. Went to Grant Park in Chi-town, saw Semisonic for free, left. Problem? Semisonic was opening for Wilco, and the show that Tweedy & co. played is now immortalized in musical consciousness as the high point of rock and roll freedom for a band that was in the middle of a war against an evil record label...
...amicable tone at the second annual UC Presidential Debate on Health Issues last night. About 50 students attended the debate, which was held in Loker Commons and meant to be a forum for the candidates to specifically address community health and wellness issues. The Community Health Initiative (CHI) began sponsoring the Health Issues debate last year because they felt that there were important issues not being addressed in the main candidate debate, which will be held today in the Science Center. “There’s so many issues that are comprised in health that generally aren?...