Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trying to help? What if clothing workers in a particular country or region, given the choice, would prefer not to see us terminate licenses that might put them out of jobs? While we should not passively accept a status quo, we must avoid the mistake of assuming that we know better than workers what is best for them. This information must come from the workers or their representatives, and we should be very careful to see that it is accurate and reliable. It is one thing to support workers who welcome our support; it is quite another to impose...
These questions are, of course, related to each other, and their answers must all begin with the proposition that we need to know what is wrong and how it can be fixed before we announce our solutions. Harvard is now actively exploring with other universities the feasibility of a pilot program to give us first-hand access to information about actual factory conditions, through the use of experienced monitors and human rights organizations that would report directly to us and advise us on the most effective responses to these conditions. Our goal is to learn enough over the course...
...endeavor known as the Fair Labor Association (FLA) urged universities to join in its efforts, and Harvard has agreed to do so. The FLA may or may not prove itself able to devise effective solutions, but we support its attempts even as we pursue other avenues. We don't know where answers will eventually be found, but we are determined to pursue these important questions as seriously as we can. Allan A. Ryan Jr. is an attorney in Harvard's Office of General Counsel...
Winterson's less poetic efforts suffer from lapses into sentimental philosophizing, as if she momentarily invokes the Hallmark Muse. I'm all for stories that convey basic truths about humanity, but I'm against the author obtrusively pointing them out for me. I'm not even sure I know what a platitude like "The future is still intact, still unredeemed, but the past is irredeemable" from the story "Orion" means. Are our futures really that predetermined? And of course "the past is irredeemable"--It's already happened; it's gone. It's tautologies like that that make me lash...
...looking back on that lazy afternoon, I remember that she put me at ease and kept things interesting. There weren't too many of those awkward silences. You know, I think I'll ask out Jeanette Winterson again...