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...year law program is a response to critics who say the third year of law school is often pointless, since by that stage most law students already have jobs lined up and care more about socializing than getting good grades. Some schools have responded by offering more externships, study-abroad programs and legal clinics to give real-world experience during that third year...
...difficult to see much difference between Barack Obama's first trip abroad since capturing the Democratic nomination and a genuine state visit by a sitting President, well, that's sort of the point of the whole exercise. Obama has stopped in Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan, Israel and plans to visit the Palestinian territories, before heading off to Germany, France and England. Not everyone has treated Obama like a Commander in Chief, but some did him one better: after Obama joined King Abdullah II for dinner at the palace in Amman, the Jordanian leader hopped into his Mercedes and drove Obama...
...peso to 50. Such developments are not easy on a typical worker, whose real wages have sunk, by one estimate, to their 1967 level. Yet many Mexican officials feel that their diligence in making sacrifices, and in honoring every debt payment so far, has been insufficiently recognized by creditors abroad. ''Mexico requires special treatment,'' said Angel Gurria, head of foreign credit at the Finance Ministry. ''But bankers balk at setting a precedent.'' Many of those balkers come from Mexico's potential backers to the north. Former U.S. Ambassador John Gavin reportedly urged American bankers to withhold loans from Mexico until...
...data processors are paid $2.20 an hour, much less than the $9 that American used to pay its U.S. keypunch operators to do the same work. American Airlines is one of a growing number of U.S. firms that are transferring white-collar work to Barbados, Jamaica and other locales abroad. Statistics on the trend are hard to come by, especially since many U.S. firms are eager to conceal the increasing extent of their foreign data-processing, engineering and computer activities. According to Harley Shaiken, a professor of information technology at the University of California at San Diego who has studied...
...many American firms, while contributing their share to the GNP, have become reassembly plants for foreign parts and products. Nowhere is hollowing out more controversial than in the auto industry. Today some 15% of the parts in U.S.-built cars, ranging from engines to transmissions, are made abroad, and a United Auto Workers' study projects that the percentage will rise to 28% by 1995. Robert Reich, a political economist at Harvard and author of The Next American Frontier, is an outspoken critic of this development. Says he: ''If American workers get stuck assembling and distributing sophisticated gadgetry from Japan...