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...asked two of the most respected scholars on Mexican-American affairs, Peter Skerry of Boston College and Rodolfo de la Garza of Columbia University, what they thought of Huntington's piece. Skerry, author of the widely admired 1995 book Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority, praised Huntington for addressing an important issue. But, said Skerry, "he pushes things too far. On questions of loyalty and the adoption of American democratic values, the evidence is that we don't have a problem [with Mexican immigrants] up to now." Skerry sent me a paper on the Resurrection Project, a faith-based organization...
...Crimson will next travel to Holy Cross on Wednesday before opening its home Ivy schedule against Columbia and Penn this weekend...
...programs in the preceding three years. But the vast majority of the $13.1 billion was distributed with no regard for the threats, vulnerabilities and potential consequences faced by each region. Of the top 10 states and districts receiving the most money per capita last year, only the District of Columbia also appeared on a list of the top 10 most at-risk places, as calculated by AIR for TIME. In fact, funding appears to be almost inversely proportional to risk. If all the federal homeland-security grants from last year are added together, Wyoming received $61 a person while California...
...about $4.5 billion to medical costs. And yet the solution can be as simple as a bar of medicated soap or a disinfectant alcohol rub. "Improved hand washing can reduce rates of infection as much as a third," says Elaine Larson, an expert on health-care hygiene at the Columbia University School of Nursing. Even wearing latex gloves isn't necessarily a good substitute, since taking them off improperly can lead to recontamination...
According to the StalCommPol website, a Harvard student’s risk of becoming a victim of a violent crime is more than three times that of a Columbia or Johns Hopkins University student...