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...just how do you spot a shady soothsayer? Pump her for lottery numbers and see if she gets them right? Not quite. According to the New York State penal code, a person is guilty of fortunetelling if he or she purports to be "able, by claimed or pretended use of occult powers, to answer questions or give advice on personal matters or to exorcise, influence or affect evil spirits or curses." Now, that would seem to apply to the horoscope in the back pages of, say, the New York Daily News. There is, however, an exception. Fortunetelling is legal...
Representatives from the Ivy League schools failed to reach a formal agreement on a sweatshop code of conduct at their third meeting in New York on Wednesday, according to a University representative...
...think what's come out of it is a renewed attempt to have a vigorous and enforceable code that all Ivy institutions can join," Ryan said...
...Harvard on Tuesday, about 50 students marched across the Yard in an attempt to persuade President Neil L. Rudenstine to adopt a strict labor code in sweatshops that manufacture products with Harvard's insignia...
University presidents across the country have something new to worry about. Over the last few weeks, a wave of students protesting sweatshop labor have targeted the offices of college presidents who haven't agreed to the code of conduct demanded by the activists. At Duke, students seized President Nannerl O. Keohane's office for 31 hours. At Georgetown, a four-day occupation of President Leo J. O'Donovan's office ended last week after Georgetown acceded to the student demands. And it could happen here. Daniel M. Hennefeld '99, one of the organizers of the sweatshop protest at Harvard earlier...