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...protected from cruel and unusual punishment. The Geneva Conventions are also quite clear: "Prisoners of war who refuse to answer may not be threatened, insulted, or exposed to any unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind." Then again, the Geneva Conventions also require that prisoners be paid a daily wage. Much of the language is too utopian to be taken literally by most nations at war, and since 9/11 the U.S. has ignored the conventions when convenient...
...bananas are produced by Fairtrade Labeling Organization (FLO) International, an organization which seeks to ensure that farms in developing nations follow safe environmental practices and that workers receive at least minimum wage...
...faced major bureaucratic hurdles in setting up an infrastructure to ensure that an NOC appears to be paid by a cover employer while actually being paid a government salary but at the same time only liable for taxes on a - often much lower - CIA officer's wage...
Could it be that the average Iraqi citizen has no job and is left with nothing to do but wage war and rue the indignities of a foreign occupation? Wouldn't an economic strategy that puts most Iraqis to work defuse the escalating hostilities? Applying American brainpower instead of firepower might serve to temper the Iraqis' unfortunate propensity for self-destruction. CHRISTINE E. BRADY Chula Vista, Calif...
Perhaps the only institution to emerge sparkling clean from Orange Crushed is The Crimson, which Nikki Chase lauds for its “tightly argued editorial” on the living wage issue. In the novel, Butch Hubbard, the flamboyant, hyperactive chair of Harvard’s African and African-American Studies Department, grants this newspaper an interview. We can only hope that Thomas-Graham—who pulled out of a telephone talk with The Crimson scheduled for last Thursday morning—will follow Hubbard’s lead...