  I present results of a heavy hadron chiral perturbation theory analysis of
the decays and masses of the recently discovered excited charm mesons. The
present data on the electromagnetic branching ratios are consistent with heavy
quark symmetry predictions and disfavor a molecular interpretation of these
states. I also discuss model independent predictions for the strong decays of
pentaquarks in the 10-bar representation of SU(3) which can be used to
constrain the angular momentum and parity quantum numbers of these states.
