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...final Sunday of their trip, they took a tour of the Lower Ninth Ward and parts of the city that had been all but destroyed. Many said the tour overturned their optimism...
...large, yes. Immigrant labor is a drag on wage growth, thus keeping a lid on inflation and interest rates. As a result, prices for goods and services are lower, and citizens can purchase more. And immigrants are consumers too: some 80% of what undocumented workers earn in the U.S. stays in the country. A recent study by economists at the University of North Carolina found that Hispanic residents, 45% of whom were undocumented, contributed $9.2 billion in spending to North Carolina's economy in 2004. By taking the least desirable jobs, says John Kasarda, a co-author of the study...
...received the Kennedy Sheldon Fellowship, which allowed him to study ethics and theology in Vatican City for a year. Ty wrote on the HST website that he would always remeber “raising his window blinds in Vanderbilt [his HMS residence] and seeing his classmates lower a 40-ft HST banner from Gordon Hall.” Following graduation, Ty pursued an internship in medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center before becoming a neurology resident in the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His family and friends could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...stake, Charlesbank attempted to invoke a clause in the original purchase agreement to force Blinds to Go to buy back its shares at a price based on a previously agreed upon formula. But Blinds to Go used the formula and estimated the value of the shares to be much lower than what Charlesbank had expected to receive. That prompted the firm to sue the Canadian company, accusing it of intentionally undervaluing the holdings. Blinds to Go then accused Harvard of improperly transferring its stake to Charlesbank, saying the fund was not a Harvard affiliate. Reaffirming a lower court?...
...That’s why Doug C. Ahlers, a fellow at the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, who led the volunteers, chose to place them in Broadmoor, rather than the better-known Lower Ninth Ward or the French Quarter...