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...protect domestic jobs, U.S. labor activists are pushing to limit the number of H-1B and L-1 visas granted to foreign workers. That would make it harder for offshore companies to have their employees working on site in the U.S. "Those programs were designed for a booming high-tech economy, not a busting high-tech economy," says Courtney of the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers. Courtney and his allies are starting to get the attention of lawmakers. Several congressional committees have held hearings on the impact of offshore outsourcing on the U.S. economy, and lawmakers in five states have...
...every ISP feels the same. Comcast, the cable-TV company that sells high-speed Internet access on the side, has announced its intention to cooperate with RIAA. So has Chicago's Loyola University. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston University, by contrast, have gone to court to protect students' identities...
...Americans are suffering casualties on a daily basis, and their attempts to help the Iraqi people rebuild a country sputter and stall in the face of a security nightmare. No one in the U.S. government or military can take pride in the postwar situation. Instead of planning to protect Iraqis' most precious resources, we became helpless witnesses to the chaotic looting and sabotage of an entire country. HARRY TUBMAN Pleasant Valley, Conn...
...Chinese in America is too often drowned out by Chang's shrill homilies on the politics of identity . In a discussion of the formation of benevolent associations in San Francisco's Chinatown, she writes: "The white man's government had demonstrated that its mission was to suppress, not protect, Chinese interests." At times, her legitimate attempts to tackle negative racial stereotypes get lost in a flurry of equally clich?d?and occasionally jingoistic?tributes to Chinese-ness. After quoting an American who is impressed that the first foreign-language newspaper in his town is Chinese (despite large populations of French...
...Americans are suffering casualties on a daily basis, and their attempts to help the Iraqi people rebuild a country sputter and stall in the face of a security nightmare. No one in the U.S. government or military can take pride in the postwar situation. Instead of planning to protect Iraqis' most precious resources, we became helpless witnesses to the chaotic looting and sabotage of an entire country. Harry Tubman Pleasant Valley...