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Decherd's impudence cost him his hat later that inning after Crimson fashion warden and former president Josh Simon confiscated the garment, deeming it "too gauche...
...After all, remember all the hubbub over the American Medical Association report that Ritalin use among two-year-olds was on the rise? Is that really more egregious than the finding that nine-year-old Thai girls are being sold en masse to work in sweatshops in L.A.'s garment district, or that the Russian mob runs a growing racket that promises young Latvian women jobs in Chicago, and then abducts them and forces them into prostitution...
...light of this, the WRC's virtues are clear. Its advisory board has strong ties with local community groups and garment unions in countries where inspections take place. It also has connections with groups who already do independent monitoring in those regions. The WRC also has good inspection policies in that it will make unannounced visits to factories and will use its community connections to speak to workers outside of the factory environment. The list of violations it inspects for is also close to Harvard's own; the information it publishes will be useful to the administration...
...other hand, business and industry organizes and continues to run the FLA. Indeed, it recently announced that it intends to hire Price Waterhouse Coopers, a business services corporation with ties to most major garment manufacturers, to do its field-work. The FLA also has bad inspection policies. It does not require the results of site visits be made public, it announces where and when it will inspect factories, it allows companies to select monitors and list which factories should be monitored and it deals with third party complaints in a convoluted way. The FLA leaves such matters in the hands...
...Store of Choice: I'd say it's not brand name, but not necessarily cheap. I think she likes the fact that she doesn't adhere to specific standards. She might go to the Salvation Army or Mass Army Navy or The Garment District and find some very nice thing there. She's still looking for a bargain, but I think she's going there to look for nice things...