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Harvard students rallied outside Widener Library yesterday afternoon to protest a code of conduct aimed at protecting sweatshop workers, saying the code would not establish adequate labor standards for university-licensed products...
...College Licensing Company, which licenses apparel for 160 schools, released the code as a guide for companies that make officially licensed apparel...
Protestors objected that the code does not require licensees to pay a living wage or to inform universities where its products are made...
Unfortunately, nobody can really talk to each other around those mega-tables. The length of the square is so large that the person directly across from you sits in a different ZIP code. The closest thing friends can do to approach the old face-to-face intimacy of the single tables is to cluster around a corner of the square. But even this maneuver requires a good bit of neck agility. That new setup pushes people apart...
...outdone, Microsoft responded last month by releasing the beta (or final test draft) of its Internet Explorer 5.0. Normally, I wouldn't review beta software in this column since prerelease code can be buggy and raw. (IE 5 is supposed to be commercially released by March.) But I believe that this beta is stable enough--and interesting enough--to recommend to anyone who's comfortable around a PC. Note that comfortable means you've been a Web user for a while and don't require any Microsoft support...