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...their government. By law, the government isn't allowed to promote overseas employment. But the Department of Labor does arrange state-to-state labor contracts that send workers abroad and openly encourages private-sector recruitment for overseas jobs. Evidence of its success, in the form of advertisements for English courses, technical schools and recruitment centers, is plastered across buildings and telephone poles throughout Manila. "It's a global phenomenon; we have to accept it," says Vivian Tornea, a director at the Department of Labor and Employment's Overseas Workers' Welfare Administration (OWWA...
...hilarious, improbable triumph of Robert Bolaño than Bolaño himself, which is a terrible shame because he's dead. At the time of his death, from liver disease, in 2003, Bolaño was a major writer in the Spanish-speaking world but virtually unknown and untranslated in English. Why that should be is not much of a mystery. Bolaño, who was born in Chile and spent most of his life in Mexico and Spain, is a difficult, angry, self-reflexive writer who lived an erratic and occasionally unpleasant life. And Americans, as the head of the Swedish Academy...
...that’s how Jason Manoharan, head TF for “Postwar American and British Fiction,†wants it to feel. He has discovered that there’s no better way of breaking a tense, academic atmosphere in class than by bringing his Old English sheep dog, Kaliban...
Similarly, Glenda R. Carpio, associate professor of African and African American Studies and of English and American Literature and Language, notes the occupational advantages of having her beagle, Placido, around at her office in the Af-Am Studies Department. “As a writer, I appreciate having someone sit at my feet, but then insist on taking long walks,†she says, adding that she always comes back to her work refreshed and refocused...
...about the secret U.S. raids into Syria and the possibility of a Syrian nuclear weapons program paint a darker picture of just how deep hostility may have run between the U.S. and Syria. "This was a real cold war," says Andrew J. Tabler, former editor of Syria Today, an English-language magazine in Damascus. "Improving U.S.-Syrian relations could be a lot harder than we thought...