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...also violates the codes of conduct for apparel production of universities like Harvard. Those codes require that factories not discriminate in employment and that management respect the right to unionize and bargain collectively. Collegiate code compliance is typically monitored by the WRC or the Fair Labor Association (FLA), the latter of which Harvard is a member. When a factory is in violation of the code and the monitor investigates, schools and brands can sometimes pressure the factory to improve—a strategy that has been successful in the past. In this case, the conditions at Primo reached...
...avoid a pitfall of TV biopics: focusing on psychology--bad childhoods, thwarted ambitions--to the exclusion of history and society. Why a child becomes a man who would conceive of genocide is significant, but more crucial is how a civilized nation could let him do it. Hitler asks the latter question, admirably and intelligently...
...While other Chinese commercial centers from Guangzhou to Beijing have been devastated by the pneumonia-like illness, China's financial capital has so far reported only 11 suspected cases and seven confirmed ones?of the latter, two have died and one is an American who was released from hospital late last week. By contrast, in Beijing, where officials announced last week that people who intentionally spread SARS could face the death penalty, there are more than 2,400 cases, of which more than 140 have died. Maintaining Shanghai's SARS-free reputation has become an all-encompassing obsession for this...
...some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the world “impressing.” We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system being, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...charities that supported the Sept. 11 hijackers. Sultan's attorneys at the law firm Baker Botts, where former Secretary of State James Baker is partner, counter that Sultan's contributions came from government coffers and were disbursed by the Prince in his role as a Saudi official. If the latter is proved, say his attorneys, the Prince would be shielded from legal action under...