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...Pence, a rising star in the House, is suggesting a temporary worker program based on a database run by private industry. And unlike the leading plan in the Senate and the blueprint sketched by Bush, his ?Border Integrity and Immigration Reform Act? would require all applicants to leave the country first. Pence tweaks a phrase from Bush?s address to the nation by calling the compromise ?a REAL rational middle ground.? Even though Bush has said his preferred solution ?ain?t amnesty,? Pence appeals to hard-liners by calling the compromise a ?no-amnesty solution...
George W. Bush's insistence on a new guest-worker program as part of any immigration reform has infuriated many conservatives, but it is also sounding alarm bells among some immigrant-rights advocates. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) argues that many guest workers already in the U.S. are being cruelly exploited--sometimes in government jobs--and fears that any expansion will lead to more instances of what Mary Bauer, an SPLC lawyer, calls "indentured servitude...
...Harvard has built closer partnerships between students and patients into the principal clinical experience, a small but important part of its most significant curriculum reform in two decades. The University of Pennsylvania Medical School began a similar program in 1997, and other schools are following suit. As long as medical students are still getting a healthy diet of clinical learning, educators say, there's little downside...
...have a great deal of respect for a number of the proponents on both sides of the UC reform debate, and at the end of the day, I believe that the vast majority of them were acting in what they earnestly believed were the best interests of the student body. So it left a bad taste in my mouth when walking out of the deciding UC meeting on Tuesday night, I happened to overhear a victorious blogger telling an opponent to get over the fact that “we” won. I’m going to hope...
...want shock therapy, to destroy everything and build it back up, and to not waste time," he explains. "He is in favor of gradual reform. He is a utopian, leading a state like the wise man of a village. That's where I say, 'Life is more complicated than this.'" Seif al Islam is anxious to end speculation that he'll get his own chance to lead Libya some day. He rules out succeeding his father "100 percent," saying his goal is limited to encouraging a civil society as part of Libya's democratization process. No interest at all? "Zero...