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...hosted 14 of its fellows Friday for a day-long symposium addressing what is expected be another critical issue for the next administration: immigration. This year’s fellows—who will spend the academic year studying at Harvard as part of the nation’s oldest mid-career fellowship for journalists—attended three different panel discussions of academic and journalistic luminaries, including Patrick J. McDonnell of the Los Angeles Times, who addressed immigration law, and Nina Bernstein of The New York Times, who focused on immigration’s future. “It?...
...oldest of the evening’s dances were first performed in 1998, while Hook also included one world premiere, itself titled “Salad Days.” The show featured Mary Cochran, Paige Cunningham, Angela Fleddermann Miller, David Parker, and Erika Randall...
...oldest debates in contemporary social science is why women earn less than men. Conservatives tend to argue that because women anticipate taking time off to raise children, they have fewer incentives to work hard in school, and they choose careers where on-the-job training and long hours are less important. Liberals tend to focus on sex discrimination as the explanation. Obviously some mixture of those factors is at work, but academics have long been frustrated when they try to estimate which force is greater: women's choices or men's discrimination...
...specious. "It's hard to believe [the strikers' charge that] there are producers who haven't paid workers for months. There's so much work around these days, workers would simply leave and go elsewhere," says Kavita Barjatya, head of TV production at Rajshri Films, one of Bollywood's oldest and best-known production houses. Many producers say they will resist what they see as bullying by unionized workers and have vowed to hold out indefinitely. But the union is betting that producers will be forced to relent by the massive daily losses and administrative chaos caused by the strike...
...strong connotations among the general public. “Harvard is a brand name,” said Alex S. Jones, a former New York Times journalist who is the director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Policy. “It’s the oldest and best known university in the United States.” Pulitzer-Prize winning writer Michael C. Winerip ’74 said in an interview that his 2007 New York Times article about Harvard admissions shot to the top of the paper’s “most...