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...Because the H-1B visas are provided only to skilled workers who can prove they have “fulfilled degree requirements,” it is impossible to apply for it until seniors have a received formal passing record—which, last year, did not happen until after the H-B1 cap was reached...
...suspect that Obama's aim is to rebuild the bonfire of Howard Dean's grass-roots campaign, minus the scream. But raging infernos don't just happen. First comes courage. Dean never would have had his bonfire if he hadn't opposed the invasion of Iraq in clear, plain, inspiring English. Even then, Dean had trouble stoking the fire: the campaign was failing long before his fatal Iowa mating call. It had become a campaign cult, too enamored with itself, with too much blabber about the money being raised on the Web and not enough about issues other than Iraq...
...lead protester attended. "I said, 'I don't think you know what this member of your congregation is doing, but it's not Christian.'" Hutchinson and some church members agreed to meet Lorrie and her clinic colleagues at the Blue Moon caf to have a conversation they thought might happen "only once in a blue moon...
...former director goes to Blue Moon meetings, Planned Parenthood's Von Unwerth brought in examples of its literature and argued that some of it was misleading and out of date. She points to one brochure that is still in use called "You're Considering an Abortion: What Can Happen to You?" It warns, "Your next baby will be twice as likely to die in the first few months of life" and "After an abortion you may become sterile." The citations throughout are to journal articles dating back to 1967, with none from the past 20 years. Since that discussion, Wood...
...belfry as the Russian experts recorded the bell tones and made moldings of the bells’ intricate iconography. A Russian foundry that a Harvard delegation visited last summer will duplicate the bells and send them back to Lowell. If all goes according to plan, the exchange will happen in summer 2008, according to Associate Provost of Art and Culture Sean T. Buffington ’91. The Lowell bells, the oldest of which dates back to the 17th century, were purchased by an American industrialist just as Josef Stalin was seizing church artifacts across the Soviet Union and melting...