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...consciences because it will do harm rather than good. The ban would deprive poor kids of much-needed sources of income, forcing them to either "rummage through rubbish heaps" or seek a job with "some other probably more exploitative local manufacturer (over whom Western public opinion holds little sway)." Almost all garment factories, globally, manufacture clothes primarily for "Western" firms--the kind that are Harvard's licensees--whether those factories are owned directly by the firms, or whether they are merely "subcontractors" who sell the clothes they make to those firms. With our proposed Code of Conduct...
...answer to child labor is not to ban Western companies from hiring kids, for a variety of reasons. For one, if the Nike factory doesn't hire them, some other probably more exploitative local manufacturer (over whom Western public opinion holds little sway) will...if they're lucky. If not, then they'll probably just try to survive by begging or rummaging through rubbish heaps--too many kids are forced to do this already...
...hitters of American poetry will be coming out in droves to support the genre, a veritable LiveAid for the literary world. Aside from a brief spate of spoken-word spots on MTV, pop culture seems to have forsaken poetry altogether. Which makes us wonder, can a nationwide publicity blitz sway today's younger readers? What America really needs now is Courtney Love, wearing a diaphanous nightie, reading Czeslaw Milosz from the roof of the Viper Club. Now that would be something...
...billion project boasts a 6,532-ft. (1.2-mile) center span--measured as the distance between the two towers--dwarfing the 1,595-ft. Brooklyn Bridge. Each of the towers, taller than a 90-story building, is equipped with 20 vibration-control devices; if winds make the structure sway, pendulums tug the towers back. The bridge is designed to withstand earthquakes as powerful as 8.0 on the Richter scale and is strung with enough steel cable to circle the globe seven times...
...beat back the two totalitarian alternatives that arose to challenge it, fascism and communism. By the 1990s, the ideals developed by centuries of philosophers from Plato to Locke to Mill to Jefferson--individual rights, civil liberties, personal freedoms and democratic participation in the choice of leaders--finally held sway over more than half the world's population...