Word: conducters
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...Ahsan's editorial on child labor (April 22) was prompted by the ongoing efforts of Harvard Students for a Sweat-Free Campus and administrators to develop a Code of Conduct for licensees of Harvard apparel, a Code that will set standards for working conditions in the factories that produce the clothes, to be enforced via a system of independent monitoring. While making a compelling argument, Ahsan unfortunately has only partly heeded the considerations that I pointed out to him after seeing his concerns on an e-mail list...
...little sway)." Almost all garment factories, globally, manufacture clothes primarily for "Western" firms--the kind that are Harvard's licensees--whether those factories are owned directly by the firms, or whether they are merely "subcontractors" who sell the clothes they make to those firms. With our proposed Code of Conduct, it is not a question of "swaying" these factories via Western "public opinion;" it is rather a more direct matter of setting specific standards for all these factories--both directly-owned and subcontracting--and enforcing them. As more schools and institutions set up Codes, more factories can be monitored...
With these Codes in effect, there will be no place for injustices to hide. Ahsan's disquieting image of children "rummaging through rubbish heaps" can be replaced by an image of children being decently housed, clothed and fed because their parents are guaranteed by the Code of Conduct a living wage from the factories. Ahsan indicates that this "argument" is not good enough because it does not consider the childrens' education, their only way out of the "poverty trap." Clearly, though, the living wage enables the childrens' education because it frees them from the desperate necessity to work rather than...
...denial of the obvious? Are we not aware that America's own declining moral and ethical standards are reflected in the polls that sanction the alleged conduct of the President [NATION, March 30]? We individually need to become cognizant of our personal values in order to effect change. Americans should not accept less than the most noble of ideals in our leaders. VIVIAN WEEDE Oro Valley, Ariz...
...American Spectator foundation through which the Hale payments allegedly flowed. The letter followed by a day what a Clinton-connected lawyer called the "diabolically clever" missive from Holder that put Starr in this box. Now Starr must either deny a conflict, or at least the appearance of one, and conduct the inquiry, or acknowledge a problem and pitch the matter back to the Justice Department, risking an outcry that his impartiality can be questioned on far more than this one piece of his wide-ranging investigation of Clinton. "He's hornswoggled," said a Clintonite...