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...practice. Wu, who heads a group dedicated to exposing forced-labor in China's prisons, said the products made involuntarily by prisoners included office supplies, sport shirts with Playboy, Esprit and Arnold Palmer labels, auto parts for American cars, and even Christmas tree lights. President Clinton plans to renew China's most-favored-nation trade status, despite continuing allegations of human rights abuses. Under current procedures, U.S. customs officials find it difficult to investigate allegations concerning such prison labor because they must ask permission to inspect suspect plants. So far this year, requests to visit 20 facilities have yielded visits...
Winthrop House residents have organized a petition asking the University to renew the contract of their senior tutor...
Thomas J. Livelli '99, who organized the petition, said that the petition to Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles had three purposes: "Obviously to persuade the dean to renew her tenure; to make Winthrop students aware of why she was leaving; and to be a nice gesture to her because she's served Winthrop really well...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: As Congress prepares to renew the debate on mandatory minimum sentencing, a new study by the RAND Drug Policy Research Center says such sentences are far less effective at reducing drug use and drug-related crime than normal law enforcement and treatment programs. The reason is the high cost of incarcerating prisoners for long periods of time. According to the study, $1 million spent on conventional law enforcement, including more arrests of drug dealers, confiscations, prosecutions and standard-length prison terms, would eliminate 70 percent more crimes against people than spending the same amount on enforcing mandatory minimums...
...Ellen's last two episodes of the season, she will come out to her parents and then to her new boss at the bookstore. She will suffer some rejection. Next season--assuming that ABC wants to renew the show and DeGeneres wants to return, which she says she might not--is uncharted territory. It would be hyperbole to say television will never be the same. But clearly this has been a landmark for DeGeneres. "I was thinking," she says, "what's the thing anyone could ask me now or say about me? And it's like nothing, really. I mean...