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...last year. Chelsae I. Smith ’07, Kristen D. O’Neill ’06-’07, and Alexandra M. Tan ’06 met while producing last year’s Haute. They say the show’s combination of meager funding and high demand revealed just how few campus resources Harvard had to offer to students interested in fashion careers—and inspired them to start Vestis. Behind their project: the hunch that Harvard students were, in fact, more interested in looking good than their North Face jackets...
...addition, money is hard to come by. The equestrian team receives a meager $400 a year, while required to pay $180 a month for lessons, $50 per show, and at least $300 for show clothing...
...month-old dispute between Gambia and its enveloping neighbor Senegal has cut river crossings, the lifeblood of Farafenni's business, to a trickle. "This is hurting both of us," says port tax collector Karamo Marong, counting out a thin clump of sweaty bills that is his day's meager haul. "And it's ordinary people who suffer." At issue is not just bureaucracy but the crazy quilt of borders stitched across the continent by Europe's colonial powers during the scramble for Africa in the 19th century. The partitioning rarely followed tribal or cultural boundaries, and created some...
Unable to support herself and her children on a meager hairdresser’s salary, Josie begins working at Pearson Taconite, the iron mine of Northern Minnesota. The work is hard, the men are merciless—they call the female employees “cunts”—and the women are expected “to take it like...
...particularly desperate: it has a 66% unemployment rate, compared with 25% among Palestinians in general, and 81% of its residents live in poverty. Israel demolished thousands of homes near the border to prevent militants from digging tunnels beneath them that could be used to smuggle weapons into Gaza. The meager refugee-camp blocks facing the border are a bullet-pocked mess of twisted rebar and shattered concrete...