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Louis Farrakhan is America's most outspoken and unrepentant bigot. He is the constant companion of murderous dictators who rule terrorist, anti-American regimes, and is the head of a vast business empire whose dealings should be closely scrutinized for ethical correctness. The media have utterly abdicated their watchdog role in regard to Farrakhan and have granted him a wholly undeserved mantle of respectability. For evil to occur it is only necessary for good men to do nothing. When evil also gets good p.r., it's tough to beat. PETER T. KING, U.S. Representative 3rd District, New York Washington
...agendas ran so thick and fast last week, as protectionist unions and corporate spin doctors and politicians and consumers saw 20 years' worth of exploitation boil down into one week's news. Labor Secretary Robert Reich skillfully recruited Gifford to the cause--offering absolution if she would become a watchdog. Reich argues that more than half the 22,000 U.S. garment contractors pay less than the minimum wage; working conditions are often appalling. He has about 800 inspectors to police them all, which is why public outrage comes in handy. "Consumer pressure is vitally important," he says. "We have also...
...these home treatment systems work? That depends, experts say, on what you want them to do. "Not every product does everything," says Nancy Culotta of Michigan's NSF International, an Ann Arbor-based industry watchdog group. Some filtering systems, she notes, merely improve the water's taste by getting rid of relatively harmless inorganic chemicals like sulfur or chlorine. Others do a creditable job of removing lead but aren't designed to purify water tainted by bacteria or other pathogens. And many of the most popular systems need to have their filters frequently replaced, or owners will wind up running...
That opinion was backed up, after the crash, by Department of Transportation Secretary Federico Pena, who professed satisfaction with ValuJet's zealous attention to regulators' concerns, a stance echoed by some of his colleagues. Not everyone agreed. DOT Inspector General Mary Schiavo, a presidential appointee who acts as a watchdog for all the agency's programs, including the FAA, ruffled feathers by publicly declaring she would not fly ValuJet. Perhaps she was familiar with the FAA report issued just nine days before the crash and first published by the Chicago Tribune last week. According to that document, the low-cost...
...author of 100 Best Places to Work in America: "There are a lot more 'good' companies. Originally, way back, corporate responsibility had to do with an external commitment to the community and philanthropic contributions. Now it's even broader." Says Craig Smith, president of Corporate Citizen, a watchdog group in Seattle: "There has been a dramatic shift. It's less about how much money a company gives and more about whether a company offers its intellectual capacities, its technology, and develops programs that focus on what to do to affect society...