Word: plight
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...must realize that workers turned away may be a permanent loss and must respond by issuing additional visas for this year as soon as possible. Harvard administrators—along with leaders of higher education across the country—ought to use their clout to inform lawmakers about plight of international students and lobby for an increase in the cap.Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, testifying to Congress about the H-1B shortfall, said that “America’s immigration policies are driving away the world’s best and brightest precisely when we need them most?...
...problems--she never learned to speak or understand language. "I was very interested already in how things in my mind worked," Hofstadter says. (He speaks very gently and deliberately, as if Mr. Rogers had been a super-intelligent rocket scientist instead of a Presbyterian minister.) "When Molly's unfortunate plight became apparent, it all started getting connected to the physical world. It really made you think about the brain and the self, and how the brain determines who the person...
...civil rights lawyers working for minorities in Israel spoke to Harvard’s Progressive Jewish Alliance at Hillel yesterday about the plight of the Bedouin minority in Israel. Morad El-Sana and Gil Gan-Mor, both law fellows at the Israeli human rights foundation New Israel Fund (NIF), told the group of 14 people at the event that having studied the American civil rights movement will be instructive when they return to advocate minority rights in Israel. “NIF has beliefs that are similar to ours,” said Jaclyn B. Granick...
...taxes, as the saying goes, are life's certainties. But, so far, their conjunction has only produced mystery as the IRS investigates the department of pathology at Tulane University's medical school. It is a mystery involving hundreds of thousands of dollars, the byzantine politics of academia, the plight of indigent patients and possibly the existence of an undead corpse...
...ideological biases and partialities of Team America—the collective minds that write, edit and draw the Captain America comics—are apparent. It’s no coincidence that the source of the comic hero’s plight shares similarities with our government’s highly-polarizing Patriot Act, or that enemies of freedom (read: terrorists) were responsible for the assassination of this idealistic symbol of liberty...