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This meant that international students who had secured jobs in America were suddenly unable to work. Student visas expire a year after graduation, while H-1Bs begin in October. So students who graduated last June but failed to get an H-1B last fiscal year—about 40 members of the Class of 2006—will have to leave the country between next June and October. Consequently, many employers simply will not hire an international if she fails to get a visa immediately...
Faust’s abundant qualifications have been clarified, as has her gender. Now is the time to stop talking about her womanhood and begin talking about her role as president. So we’ll start this new conversation: Faust has "emphasized her desire to lead Harvard’s expansion into Allston and to improve undergraduate education." The campus has yet to ask how. What are her plans? What is her vision? During the past week, these types of substantive question have remained largely unasked...
...time, or even to seriously address them. And religion has too often been used as a wedge to divide people, rather than as a bridge to bring us together on those most critical questions. I believe (and many people I talk with agree) that politics could and should begin to really deal with the many crises we face. Whenever that happens, social movements often begin to emerge, usually focused on key moral issues. The best social movements always have spiritual foundations, because real change comes with the energy, commitment and hope that powerful faith and spirituality can bring...
...incident involved Welch's longtime ally Lamar Alexander. To begin with, John McCain failed to support Alexander's November bid for Senate minority whip against Mississippi's Trent Lott. And then, Welch complains, McCain "went and convinced two other people to change their votes. I thought that was egregious." The McCain camp acknowledges recruiting on Lott's behalf. In the end, Alexander lost by one vote...
...difficult task for past events that can only be accessed indirectly) and recalling anecdotes, neither of which Munro does compellingly. Throughout the stories of her family’s sea voyage and the early days of their settlement in Canada, the anecdotes seem arbitrary and perfunctory, ending before they begin. There is little sense of place or vivid evocation of experience, and Munro’s attempts to imaginatively create an inner life for her characters seem flat. There is mention of a brother’s friendship with a rich man’s ailing young daughter aboard...