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...thoughts and prayers are with the Virginia Tech community first and foremost. Beyond that, a lot of us were cognizant that there could be backlash, some even feared physical backlash, for Asians and Asian Americans in the rest of the country,” said Edward H. Thai ’07, a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association (AAA) and the Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Students Association. In the days since last Monday’s shooting, groups have emerged on Facebook with titles such as “Guns Don’t Kill People, Asian Kids...
...academic year, released a letter earlier this month outlining a plan for faculty growth and renewal, calling for most of the net growth over the next three years to take place in sciences and engineering. “The direction is surely wise and appropriate,” said Edward L. Glaeser, the Glimp professor of economics. “Amazing things have been happening in the sciences in the last 15 years and it is absolutely critical that Harvard be in the forefront of scientific learning.” The chair of organismic and evolutionary biology, Andrew A. Biewener...
...that even whispers of amnesty for illegal workers. Meanwhile, liberals deplore his harsh approach, with its $10,000 fines and $3,500 fees for temporary work visas. Thousands of protesters threaded through the streets of L.A. carrying signs saying LOVE THY NEIGHBOR, DON'T DEPORT HIM. Their champion, Senator Edward Kennedy, whom Bush will need in his corner to get anything passed, is still fuming after the March raid of a Massachusetts factory, in which agents swept up undocumented workers and shipped them to detention facilities halfway across the country, leaving children stranded at school and a baby...
...India and the Asian tigers are places that have educated populations, and that has been the basis for their economic explosions," says Edward Glaeser, an economics professor at Harvard who studies the relationship between education and national prosperity. India and China may have illiteracy rates that are higher than Brazil's, but they also have much larger populations of educated, skilled workers. "Brazil's poor economic growth over the past few years is associated in part with the low level of education," Glaeser says...
...loan," says Tom Joyce, spokesman for Sallie Mae, the nation's largest student-loan company. "You do the math." And there is a renewed effort to get more schools into direct lending, which costs taxpayers an estimated $7.50 less for every $100 disbursed, compared with private loans. Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy is pushing a bill that rewards colleges for switching to the cheaper of the two lending systems by giving them additional need-based aid--a setup, many in higher education note, that is strikingly similar to the ones schools are in hot water for having negotiated with individual banks...