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...structure and its relationship with the College. The contention continued when Kidd was accused of attempting to fire the long-time PBHA bookkeeper and comptroller—an officer of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers—which pegged Kidd as part of the anti-union administration. In 2005, Kidd’s relationship with student groups was again thrust into the spotlight after she threatened to shut down a planned student protest of the presence of CIA and Department of Homeland Security recruiters on campus, only to later abandon that position. But this past fall, Kidd...
...other concrete recommendation of the Durban II conference was that states take legal action to combat “xenophobic attitudes towards and negative stereotyping of non-citizens.” Further passages in the document excoriate states that discriminate against immigrants, whether legal or not. This anti-nationalistic, pro-globalization sentiment is fraught with problems, particularly as the UN cannot possibly enforce or even evaluate whether states accept large amounts of immigrants and whether their immigration policies are liberal. There were further resolutions promoting democracy and multiculturalism and resolutions against assimilation and nationalism. The conference’s resolutions...
...simple questions, depending on how information is presented to them. In one example, they told test subjects about a woman named Linda, who "is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright." They added that Linda "majored in philosophy," "was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination" and "participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations...
...head as all eyes look south, afraid that the U.S. may be infected by what appears to be Mexican swine flu. But while public health and government officials on both sides of the border battle the outbreak, a virus of another sort is spreading across the Internet as anti-immigration groups use the imminent flu pandemic as an argument for closing the U.S.-Mexico border...
...shutting down the almost 2,000-mile-long U.S.-Mexico border would be a disaster of a different sort. While anti-immigration groups focus on the impact of illegal entrants to the country, there is little attention paid to the goods that flow both ways: wheat (vital for production of the Mexican staple, tortillas) and other food commodities head south, while assembled goods made from U.S. components head back north. In that mix are some products that could be essential if the flu spreads. Dr. Carlos del Rio, chairman of the global health department at Emory University, wrote...