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...workers who earn minimum wage and receive no benefits, Patrick credits his company's environmentally friendly business practices, above-average pay and good employee benefits for making the firm more, not less, competitive. And he lays most of the blame for the decimated manufacturing industry on an uneven playing field with China. "The [previous] Administration refused to make China play by the rules," he says. "If China stops the illegal subsidies they're giving their industries and does something to offset the currency manipulation, we're good...
...Extension School’s Writing Center, and then the assistant director of the Harvard Writing Project.Yet despite his extensive teaching experience, Jehn differs from the program’s two most recent directors—Sommers and Richard Marius, both nationally renowned for their work in the field of writing composition—in that Jehn does not have as strong a record of published works.Jehn was one of four finalists for the director position, along with writing program directors from comparable institutions. Though the advertisement Harvard released for the job said that an applicant must...
...leap is almost unprecedented, so it’s a big deal for him personally.” “It’s pretty significant,” Harvard coach Jason Saretsky said. “Obviously, Harvard has a rich history and tradition in track and field. It’s one of the original sports at Harvard, so to have a time that ranks on that all-time list is a great achievement.” The last time someone made it onto the 5000-meter top-10 performance list was in 2003, when Matt Seidel...
...with low participation rates and dwindling competition, disintegrated and the Harvard Club Soccer team emerged in its place. “It was really a shame because there are a lot of really good soccer players. There are a lot of guys who want to be out on the field and want to be a part of the team,” said last year’s club team co-president David B. Kopelman ’09 of the old JV program, “and we really did not think the JV program was fitting that bill...
...UNICEF and the U.N.'s refugee agency, UNHCR, are airlifting emergency supplies to the island nation over the weekend. The U.S. and France have pledged field hospitals while the European Union has committed $22 million in assistance. But the U.N. last week warned that the response to its emergency appeal in February for $155 million for Sri Lanka had brought in less than a third of that amount by the time thousands of civilians began flooding into refugee camps last week...