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This spring, Harvard gave me money for a post-graduate trip to research baseball, which is basically akin to giving a five-year-old money to research a candy shop. And on the day that the fellowship paperwork arrived in the mail, I understood exactly why Harvard was “Harvard...
...immigration passes. Two busloads of tobacco workers, fresh from the Mexican state of Nayarít, are met and ministered to by a cadre of social and health workers, a federal agent from the Department of Labor, even a union organizer. In all, they spend almost four hours filling out paperwork, watching movies about how to avoid pesticide sickness and getting a set of no-nonsense rules (if you fight, you're fired; don't use the fire extinguisher to cool your beer) from the North Carolina Growers Association, the organization that brought them from Mexico. They are then driven...
Back in North Carolina, the tobacco farmers are fighting a very different enemy: U.S. bureaucracy. The Senate plan has some provisions designed to cut through the reams of paperwork. But the U.S. consulates in Mexico, which have to interview and approve each worker before every season, are already swamped. Last June the Department of State, in an effort to speed up visa processing, began to outsource the appointment scheduling to the Computer Sciences Corp., a FORTUNE 500 company that handles everything from IT to fighting wars for the U.S. government around the world. According to Eury, the outsourcing actually made...
...Many of the foreign inmates are awaiting repatriation to their home countries, under bilateral prison transfer agreements. But their departure requires the necessary paperwork to be completed by the notoriously slow Venezuelan bureaucracy. "Obviously if you've got people being killed all the time, you want the prison transfer agreement to work," a consular official at one embassy said...
...with the service. HSA has endorsed the service.Last fall, Kirkland House resident Eric P. Lesser ’07 collected e-mail statements from more than 40 students who had stored their belongings with Collegeboxes over the summer. The e-mails cited problems ranging from lost futons to misplaced paperwork to delays in receiving insurance claim checks.Kirkland was particularly affected by those problems because the House’s storage space underwent renovations last summer, and the College used Collegeboxes to store residents’ belongings, at no cost to students.Last November, the Undergraduate Council passed a unanimous resolution lambasting...