Word: canadas
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...study abroad programs, Winnie explains that close ties aren’t always easy to come by. “Especially if you go with another group of schools,” she adds. Harvard’s current exchanges include the Killam Fellowships Academic Exchange Program in Canada, the Uppsala University-Harvard College Exchange Program in Sweden and L’Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris in France.“What’s important to us is a good match,” Hill says. And academics, of course...
...hope things aren't really that bleak. Because the fact is Europe and Canada are our first and best lines of defense. A terrorist cell in Europe planned and executed 9/11. And today, with 14 million Muslims, Europe remains our Achilles' heel. An alarming number of European Muslims identify with Islam more than they do with their adopted countries. And Europeans do not need visas to enter the United States...
...points-based immigration system. And Britain is already testing its own version, which targets both skilled and unskilled labor to fill gaps across the entire workforce. But Europe has generally been resistant to the idea. The main concern is that it would encourage illegal immigration (a problem that Canada, which shares its border with the world's richest country, doesn't have). There are an estimated 11-13 million non-European illegal immigrants in the E.U. But the European Commission is hoping to slash that number as part of a push to harmonize immigration policy across the E.U. One goal...
...from west to east, they all converge, thanks to prevailing winds, on northern New England. The White Mountains, meanwhile, focus things further, turning already bad weather to flat-out hellish. The range stretches from southwest to northeast, pretty much at a right angle to winds sweeping down from Canada. As they run into the solid wall of peaks, the winds stream up and over the top, accelerating all the while...
...result has all the delicacy and richness that have made Munro’s work famous, though it’s not without its forgivable flaws.The book is divided into two parts, the first centering on the lives of her ancestors as they make their way from Scotland to Canada and the second consisting of Munro’s partially fictionalized recollections of her own life. For much of the first section, Munro’s attempts to imagine, describe and fill in the details of the lives of her ancestors in Scotland’s Ettrick Valley run into...