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...program announced by the College last month.The move resulted from the college’s decision to delay concentration choice until the middle of sophomore year, leaving current freshmen without departmental advisers come September.But this plan was only one of several considered by the Standing Committee on Advising and Counseling, and a draft report obtained by The Crimson outlines some potential concerns that the committee expressed about that model.The report says advising could vary significantly between Houses, resident deans may be overburdened with other responsibilities, and the House tutoring staff might need to be reorganized.The committee, comprised of professors, administrators...
There is something intensely familial about the scandal now engulfing the Bush Administration over the dismissal of eight U.S. Attorneys last year. The key players--Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former White House counsel Harriet Miers, political shaman Karl Rove--all rose from the tight web of Texas loyalists who owe their careers to George W. Bush and followed him to Washington in 2001. Bush even chose a member of his Texas tribe who wasn't implicated, counselor Dan Bartlett, for the task of defending those who were. Said Bartlett of the firings: "All the decisions ... were proper decisions...
...clear how much one should blame Dobson for his prying - no one has to submit to it if he doesn't want to, and millions of Americans look up to him as a civic and moral leader. I respect much of what he has done, including his efforts to counsel families and defend the right to life...
...case, according to John McKay, a fired U.S. attorney from Washington State, both White House counsel Miers and a Republican member of Congress raised the issue of voter fraud in the state's close 2004 election. McKay told lawmakers that when he met Miers and other Administration officials to review his fitness for a position as a judge, she asked him why he had "mishandled" the 2004 election, apparently by not bringing voter fraud cases that might have tipped the balance toward the Republican candidate, who ultimately lost. McKay did not receive a judicial nomination...
...Temporary guest-worker programs are built around the needs of the employer," says Muzzaffar Chishti, of the Migration Policy Institute, an independent think tank that studies immigration issues. The 89,000 H-2B workers entering the U.S. annually are bound to their employer and have no right to legal counsel. Yet there is no government agency that can force the companies to abide by their contracts, he explains. "It's today's version of bonded labor...