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Harvard used to employ its dining hall workers over the summer. Many were chosen for custodial work or jobs with Harvard’s Buildings and Grounds division, and a select few got to remain in the open dining halls. But ever since Harvard contracted this work out to Unicco and other hiring outfits, less-expensive temp workers have taken up summer custodial jobs, leaving dining hall workers without over 100 positions that were once available to them. According to Edward B. Childs, an Adams House cook and one of the stewards of this movement, the changes began roughly...
...Maybe I should do tea. The race has always existed. But even so, acceleration is undeniable. For example, investment banks used to employ only rising seniors. Now, they have rising junior programs and even special camps for freshmen. Some Harvard counselors even advise sophomores to start taking LSATs. Did you get that Barron?...
...than not." David regrets the passing of an Australia that, in time of war, could draw on a huge pool of citizen marksmen. "We lost that after Vietnam," he says. With it went not just skills but a cast of mind. "Given the choice," says Ian, "I would always employ a shooter over a non-shooter. A good shooter is responsible, he's careful. He thinks about what he's doing, and when it's over he thinks about how to do it better." Says Alan, a teacher: "The art on the range, on the job, in life...
...Salvador, told the Associated Press that he was willing to lose his construction job in Homestead, Fla., in order to attend the rally there. "If I lose my job, it's worth it," he said. "It's worth losing several jobs to get my papers." Some businesses that employ large numbers of immigrants, however, reported little absenteeism. One of the nation's largest poultry producers, Gold Kist in Georgia, reported that only 400 of its 16,000 workers, half of whom are immigrants from Latin America, skipped work on Monday...
...companies pay illegals poverty wages, reap high profits and complain that if they had to employ legal workers they would go out of business. That is modern slavery, no matter how you cut it, and the only way to stop it is to close the borders, fine those who hire illegal immigrants and then ferret out the illegals who are in this country...