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...instead of joining the WRC, Harvard has been content with membership in a far more lenient, industry-run group. The Fair Labor Association (FLA) is notorious for doing as little as possible. Created by the Apparel Industry Partnership four years ago, the FLA did not issue a public report until June of this year—and when it did so, it refused to release the names or locations of factories, shielding offending factories from any public scrutiny and rendering the reports themselves impossible to verify. Further, the FLA has no provision in its code of conduct against sexual harassment...
...brief look at the composition of their advisory boards speaks to the difference between these groups: representatives of the very clothing companies the FLA supposedly monitors make up one third of its own executive committee; the WRC governing board, in contrast, is made up of labor experts, students and administrators. As a result, the WRC investigations are conducted and decisions about follow-up mediation are made independently of the brands involved. The FLA relies on the same corporations it’s supposed to monitor for much of its funding—seven out of the 11 monitors...
John Hart Ely, an innovative legal theorist and former Harvard professor whose ideas about constitutional interpretation widely influenced the discourse on democracy and the law over the past quarter century, died of cancer on Oct. 25 at his home in Coconut Grove, Fla...
While most kids seem to take the code as merely an inside joke, some schools like Fort McCoy in Marion County, Fla., have banned the bracelets. "It's a hot-button topic here," says school-board member Sue Mosley, who has heard complaints from parents at middle schools. Some kids defend the bracelets as just kitschy accessories. "I've been wearing my bracelet since eighth grade," says 15-year-old Roby Behrens of Los Angeles. "It's a fashion thing. You don't need them to have sex, but people do use them to kiss or get to third base...
Naming rights to sports facilities usually go to local companies: there's Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla.; Pacific Bell Park in San Francisco; and America West Arena in Phoenix, Ariz., among others. So why is Toyota, a Japanese company with U.S. offices in Torrance, Calif., the nameplate for the new Toyota Center arena in Houston? For one 7-ft. 5-in. reason: Yao Ming, the Houston Rockets star from Shanghai. Toyota opened a new plant in Tianjin, China, and hopes millions of Yao fans will soon be Corolla fans...