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...immigration. Card’s basic findings are echoed by other economists.At the least, we should be suspicious of those who claim that the rights of immigrants conflict with U.S. workers’. The economic evidence is too complicated and inconclusive to draw such a conclusion. Even Borjas admits that, under certain fairly common assumptions, immigration has no effect on the wages of the average worker. On the other hand, as the Post article shows, the popular perception that immigrants are a threat to U.S. workers continues to be politically potent. Democrats have a long way to go to convince...
...Frustrated prosecutors, not surprisingly, weren't willing to admit defeat. So to spare his family the emotional havoc of a retrial, al-Arian cut a deal. After months of negotiations, the Feds announced this week that the USF professor had pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to provide services to the PIJ, such as immigration assistance to its members and lying about a former associate's affiliation with the terrorist group. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 1. But though guidelines call for 46 to 57 months in prison, al-Arian, who was born in Kuwait...
...Harvard is “daunting, to say the least.”“My favorite professor in community college could only remember one other student of his applying and he had been teaching there for thirty years or more.” Out of only 75 admitted transfers in the class of 2009, Harvard “enrolled about 5 transfer students from two year colleges,” according to Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73, director of admissions for Harvard College.Lewis added that the Harvard’s admissions office...
...unprecedented. General MacArthur objected to Harry Truman's handling of the Korean War and was fired in 1951. The Air Force didn't like the way Lyndon Johnson handpicked bombing targets during the Vietnam War. And Bill Clinton had to back down after he ordered the Pentagon to openly admit homosexuals in 1993 by settling on the narrower "Don't ask, don't tell" policy...
...know it, but throughout the year, any interaction you have with your friendly neighborhood proctor could end up in an evaluation at the admissions office, informing future admissions decisions. Recently, the admissions office was forced to admit, via a mistakenly sent email, that information collected about current freshman, and possibly upperclassmen, may be used to determine who was an “admissions mistake” and who was a treasured find. The email—accidentally sent by a proctor to a Crimson reporter—condemned two students as “so self-centered that they have...