Word: georgetown
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...protesting the use of sweatshop laborhave erupted on college campuses across the nationin the past few weeks. At Georgetown University,students occupied the president's office for fivedays. At the University of Wisconsin at Madison,protestors held a sit-in for 97 hours. Bothschools eventually acceded to the protestors'demands...
...demand public disclosure of factory locations. While the apparel manufactures claim that this information is a trade secret, disclosure is vital to ensure that those who monitor factory conditions are doing their jobs properly. With factory locations made public, sweatshops will have nowhere to hide. Major universities like Duke, Georgetown and the University of Wisconsin at Madison have already committed to full disclosure; in response, Harvard, a much richer institution with a national reputation for moral leadership, should not be afraid to join in this initiative. If American universities join together in making this demand, the industry will have...
...Georgetown at N.D. (bkc), ESPN...
Abdullah has yet to express his views, but friends say he supports the peace with Israel and opposes Iraq's Saddam Hussein. The son of Briton Toni Gardiner, the second of Hussein's four wives, he received an extensive education at Sandhurst and Oxford and attended Georgetown University in the U.S. He heads the army's elite Special Forces, and his popularity in the Bedouin-based force is a strong point. He may have an advantage in dealing with the country's Palestinians: his wife hails from the West Bank. But Abdullah has no political or government experience. And strict...
RESIGNING. JOHN THOMPSON, 57, venerated longtime Georgetown University basketball coach; for personal reasons; in Washington. Under Thompson's 27-year tutelage, the Hoyas spawned Patrick Ewing, reached the NCAA tournament 20 times and won a championship...