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...This new policy is misguided and harmful for several reasons. First and foremost, the turn toward protectionism in the labor market mandates that the United States essentially throw away much of its already-sparse annual investment in human capital. Every year, American colleges and universities invest millions of dollars in the education of talented students from overseas. Considering the depth of the current crisis, it is foolish to turn away thousands of highly skilled, incredibly productive, and well-qualified candidates on the basis of their nationality...
...First and foremost I see myself as a pitcher,” Suter says. “[But] I’m hoping to contribute...
...worse. French Economy Minster Christine Lagarde on Monday said she expected France to suffer 300,000 job cuts in 2009 - a figure independent analysts says massively underestimates the figure they predict, which is closer to 900,000. Speculation is also rising that several central European countries - Hungary foremost among them - may soon need bailing out by fellow European Union members to avoid economic collapse...
...have an opinion other than I didn’t have a great view of it,” Donato said. “But regardless of what the call was, the referee was in a great position to make the call and that’s first and foremost; secondly, we don’t have replay available at our building just yet.”—Staff writer Courtney D. Skinner can be reached at cskinner@fas.harvard.edu...
...First and foremost, the United States must immediately figure out what to do with present and future detainees. And, yes, there will be future detainees—unfortunately, the global war on terror is not a myth of the Bush administration. It is part of the often-violent tension between the forces of rapid globalization and modernization and people who want to stay rooted in their own ways of being in the world...