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...bright light." No one at the orphanage seemed to know for sure - the name was on his file when he arrived at the orphanage - but the name may be the only thing his birth mother left to him. It is standard practice for Vietnamese hospitals to require women in labor to provide proposed names for the child, one for a boy and a second for a girl, in case the mother dies in childbirth. The practice is a legacy of the hard years of famine and poverty after the war when women more often died in childbirth...
...Jessica G. Ranucci ’10, a member of the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), said that since the most recent forum on the issue in December, the racism against Latinos “is actually getting progressively worse...
...Bautista's homecoming is a small but important victory in the battle to curb illegal immigration - not at the border, but at its source in the dusty recesses of impoverished rural Mexico. The nation's massive labor migration - what President Felipe Calderon calls his country's "open wound" - was a top agenda item during his recent meeting with President George W. Bush. But if Bush was serious when he said "the working poor of Latin America need change," then many feel the U.S. should start helping burgs like Santa Cruz build the kind of small enterprises that can jump-start...
Surprisingly, the new migrants have stabilized local labor markets. Not long ago, Irish builders were constricted by a lack of workers. Wages were spiraling to "ridiculous" levels, says John Dunne, the chief executive of Chambers Ireland, a business lobby group. A wage squeeze is one of the things unions feared most about the influx. Yet they too are benefitting from economic growth. Many of the migrants are signing up for unions because Poland has a long tradition of unionism. A British union, GMB, recently opened a branch in Southampton exclusively for migrant workers...
...serving as the sole institutional representative of Oxford’s American Rhodes community, he is closer to the scholarship and the scholars than anyone else. Though dismissive of the media uproar—attributing it to the fact that Oxbridge has long been “under the Labor government’s microscope”—his profound disappointment in the op-ed’s authors is clear. He commented, “I found it almost breathtaking that they ended their article suggesting that no one should apply for the Rhodes unless they want...