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Local contractor Wayne Mayo, 54, has watched this long slump up close. Like many other people in St. Helens, he used to work in the timber industry, as a lumber broker. But his more recent turn, as a general contractor, brought him face-to-face with an economic force he felt he could influence: illegal immigration. Although St. Helens has a relatively small Hispanic community - some legal, some illegal - the town is just 30 miles (about 50 km) from major population centers like Portland and Beaverton, close enough that out-of-town contractors with crews of underpaid, underdocumented construction workers...
...hard for this weekend,” Clayton said. “We’ve ran more this week than we did last week. I really think we’ve upped the intensity.” The Tigers enter the weekend’s action reeling from close losses against No. 60 Yale and Brown, with its solitary win in the Ivies coming in its season opener against Penn. However, Harvard knows it will need maximum concentration to win Friday’s clash. The Princeton team has climbed as high as No. 73 nationally this season...
...Engineers will have some ground to make up on both squads, as it finished third behind Georgetown and Yale last weekend in all three of its races. With MIT calling the Charles home, its boats may be able to close the gap, but the Crimson will likely find itself in more of a two-team race...
...unions don’t agree to cost-cutting measures hasn’t fazed many members of the Harvard community. Talk about the shutdown began after executives at The New York Times Co.—The Globe’s parent company—threatened to close the Boston newspaper if The Globe’s unions did not agree to a decrease in pay and the end of company contributions to pensions, which would total $20 million. The announcement comes as newspapers across the country have announced cutbacks, buyout programs, and closures in response to plummeting print...
Though it gets off to a slow start with an unusual background, once "Love Song for Seventeen Crips" moves to the Ratatat beat it evolves into a carefully crafted interweaving of electronics, piano, and the lyrics of Sara Bareilles' most prominent hit, "Love Song." Close attention to detail here...