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...threat of China's increasing production power looms over the European luxury-goods business, two Italian industrialists and one designer explain why the unique craftsmanship characterizing their brands may just be the best excuse to pay higher labor costs and keep their business close to home
They stand in “the pit,” handing out flyers that explain exactly why everyone who doesn’t convert is going to hell. Effective message? Just down the steps, the garbage is full of leaflets...
...chaplain without a church, a Divinity student without a religion. His friend Rodriguez hesitates to define his beliefs. The HSS students avoid abstract terms in their discussions of atheism, preferring phrases like “empirical evidence” and “scientific method” to explain their views. But “faith” is not a word Epstein avoids.“I think Humanists are profound believers,” he says, “because it takes faith and it takes courage to decide that if there’s no overarching meaning...
...making phone calls thinking, ‘There must’ve been a car accident.’”Meanwhile, the doctors in Pittsfield misunderstood the severity of the injury. Relying on x-rays to review the bone breaks, they couldn’t explain why the bleeding would not stop.A specialist was brought in to examine the injury. The diagnosis: an artery behind Brown’s left eye had ruptured. It took an emergency blood transfusion and another surgery, this time a reconstruction of Brown’s eye socket and nose in Keene...
...aftermath of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ resignation, a range of theories has been offered to explain what went wrong. Generating much heat but little light, every media outlet blamed a different culprit, from a hard-left faculty of “feminazis” to structural problems in Harvard’s system of governance. Unfortunately, with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ continued silence on the issue, what Pforzheimer House Master James J. McCarthy called “uninformed and/or misinformed” speculation may be the best explanation that the Harvard community gets...