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...Word has spread. The state's employment agency now fields calls from people in hard-hit cities like Phoenix and Miami who want to know how to get a job in North Dakota. Last winter, facing bleak work prospects in upstate New York, William Phillips boarded a Greyhound bus and three days later landed in Bismarck. He was shocked, he says, when the same day he applied for a job at Fireside Office Solutions, an IT-management firm, he got called in for an interview. With the city's dearth of tech-oriented workers, the company had been looking...
...room frequented by overseas Chinese, responses reflect a rush of nationalism. "We must spare no violence to unify our nation," writes one netizen named "welltwo." "I support tough military crackdown," says another. "They [the rioters] deserve no explanation." Meanwhile, news about an information lockdown in Xinjiang has been widely spread and criticized on the microblogging service Twitter...
...cuts amount to a 2.5 percent reduction in the School's staff workforce, according to FAS spokesman Steve Bradt, who also said that no faculty were affected by the downsizing. He declined to state where the layoffs occurred, saying only that they were spread throughout FAS. But Harvard College Library, a unit of FAS, was the source of roughly 20 of those 77 layoffs, according to an announcement last week that also said the libraries had cut hours for several others employees...
...songwriter, he turned a celebrity's denial of paternity into the whispery, groovy "Billie Jean" and a flee-don't-fight message into the unbeatable "Beat It." The videos for these songs broke an informal color barrier at MTV and made music videos a format that quickly spread around the globe. The 14-minute superproduction for Thriller was later chosen by MTV as the top video ever. (Read "How to Moonwalk Like Michael...
...more than 800,000 members of the Tamil diaspora spread out from Toronto to Sydney, the news was met with mixed reactions. Some are fervent supporters of the LTTE and others downright oppose the separatist movement, but are reluctant to publicly criticize the Tigers out of fear of a network globally regarded as terrorists. What more Tamils living abroad can agree on is better rights for the minority still in the country. Many Tamils, who are primarily Hindu, have long claimed job discrimination and unequal political power in a nation and government dominated by Sri Lanka's Sinhalese Buddhist majority...