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...percent of the applicants for the 2007-2008 academic year come from paid lunch families. But under the prior system they could fill at most was only 65 percent of the total seats, according to Superintendent of Schools Thomas Fowler-Finn...
...immigrants stood handcuffed in front of a New Orleans federal courthouse. They weren't on trial, but rather launching a suit against their employer, Decatur Hotels, and its owner, local magnate F. Patrick Quinn III. Brought to the U.S. to fill post-Katrina vacancies, the guest workers claim that their pre-signed contracts are all but fiction, and they are demanding compensation. The handcuffs - along with enlarged copies of their visa papers strung around their necks - were symbolic...
...that the area's depleted workforce could not match their hiring needs, despite the fact that unemployment rates reached 8.9% in the city and 16.8% in surrounding suburbs following Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Instead of hiring local residents, employers brought in thousands of guest workers from abroad to fill...
...straightforward news broadcast and “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”As a relatively young organization—(literally—it’s comprised largely of freshmen and sophomores), HRTV has high hopes for its future and the gap it hopes to fill on the Harvard campus.STRANGE BEDFELLOWS“HRTV and ‘Ivory Tower’ are important because there are so few outlets at Harvard for students to get involved in commercial film making,” says Eve A. Lebwohl ’08, HRTV vice president...
...advantage of the online resources for which Harvard is already paying. The next director of HUL will face considerable challenges, including a tight budget further constrained by the rising price of foreign books and periodicals. While any successor to Verba’s legacy will have tremendous shoes to fill, we are confident that a sustained commitment to technology, accessibility, and student service will continue to make HUL the best friend of celebrated researchers and undergraduate term-paper procrastinators alike...