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...arrange state-to-state labor contracts that send workers abroad and openly encourages private-sector recruitment for overseas jobs. Evidence of its success, in the form of advertisements for English courses, technical schools and recruitment centers, is plastered across buildings and telephone poles throughout Manila. "It's a global phenomenon; we have to accept it," says Vivian Tornea, a director at the Department of Labor and Employment's Overseas Workers' Welfare Administration (OWWA...
...head resulted in a quick Lions touchdown, another punt was returned by Columbia’s Austin Knowlin for a touchdown, and junior Patrick Long missed an extra point and a field goal. And the Crimson’s special teams troubles are not a recent phenomenon. Harvard entered the contest ranked last in the Ivies in kick returns and punt returns, as well as seventh in net punting. In week two against Brown, a missed extra point at the end of the Crimson’s first touchdown drive forced Harvard to have to go for two late...
...long time, throughout most of 2001, you could buy a lot of surplus servers on eBay for a third or tenth of the price. So there was a clear artificial bubble in terms of sales that got dissipated over the subsequent years. I don't see that same phenomenon in this crisis particularly. The servers that were at Bank A, which is no longer a stand-alone bank, are still running all the transactions, it's just that they now belong to Bank...
Even the least literary among the Harvard set are likely to be familiar with the wildly successful novel-turned-phenomenon “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.” Few, however, know as much about the man behind the legend, Gregory Maguire. When the fantasy-fiction author made a pit stop at the Harvard Book Store to chat about his new venture into Oz, “A Lion Among Men,” FM took the opportunity to sit down and chat about the perks and pitfalls of writing...
...substance. You don’t have to love ABBA to sway in your seat, sing along with the Baby Boomers, and say “Thank You for the Music.” “Legally Blonde,” while not likely to start a phenomenon like “Mamma Mia’s” global ABBA fever, does have it’s own sort of cultural influence: “Is He Gay or European?” is the highlight of the show and has certainly already become an ubiquitous pop-culture...