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...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 no choice but to comply...
...estimates that the cost of accommodation is $500 a person on average, Gallegos says. The payoff? "The benefit to the company of accommodating people is that we have a much richer pool of employees to choose from," says Emily Duncan, director of diversity and work life. "The investment we make in our people allows them to be more productive in the workplace. After all, talent comes in all kinds of packages...
...start passing the plate for a Bill Gates defense fund just yet. The world's richest man is yet richer than anyone suspected. This week when Microsoft posted its profits for the fiscal quarter ending Dec. 31, its earnings had climbed 75 percent over the same period last year. A recent estimate of Gates's personal fortune puts it at $73 billion. The incredible rise -- Microsoft earned $1.98 billion -- was attributed to strong personal computer sales that triggered equally swift sales of the operating systems Windows NT and Windows...
...think that explains why football's television ratings have fallen off; ABC's Monday Night Football, for example, has just wound up the worst season in its 29 years on the air. I have located the problem. Pro football remains in bad odor among thinkers. It needs a richer intellectual tradition...
...improve upon the hermeneutics of chalktalk pundits and initiate pro football in a richer obscurantism. The thoughtful spectator will see the players as nodes through which institutionalized power relations are transmitted. From the flip of the coin, the stark binary "Either/Or" ("heads" or "tails") introduces us to a divided universe (kick off or receive? offense or defense?), a jockstrap yin-yang played out in a temporal dynamic of four quarters in a cycle of Sundays that recapitulates Vico...or is it Ibn Khaldun? I forget...