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...skilled labor market of many of its most willing and able young professionals. With elections on the horizon, we hope that a lame duck Congress will act on legislation that will expand on the U.S.’s H1-B visa program.The number of individuals granted H-1B status is capped at 65,000 annually. Acquiring an H-1B visa requires proof of graduation from college and a sponsoring U.S. employer, and allows the individual to work in the United States for up to six years. Thousands of international students in the U.S. are turned down every year...
...learned and they listened and then went home and built their own toilets." More than 25,000 households joined the latrine-building boom in just three years. The number of people with access to a latrine in Banja district rose to 86% today from 3% in 2001. Toilets became status symbols. "Some people are building latrines nicer than their houses," says Gabeyew Tarekegn, who lives in a nearby village. Worku says that his children have been sick less often since the family began using the latrine and washing their hands afterward. At the Gafft Primary School, amid the eucalyptus trees...
...disgust) to the powerless, focusing their inchoate needs and longings from the bully presidential pulpit. Instead, he?s given us an awkward mix of standard genres that doesn?t give us what we desperately need in this increasingly desperate political season - a black and snarling assault on our imbecile status quo. Man of the Year is a watchable film, but it - and its star - might have done so much more...
...legislation on the treatment of detainees since a Supreme Court decision in June struck down the military tribunal system used in Guantanamo to try terror suspects. An HLS third-year student, Britton A. Schwartz, told the audience that the recent measure “leaves Guantanamo in its status as a legal black hole.” Deborah A. Popowski, a member of HLS Advocates for Human Rights and second-year student at HLS, claimed the bill “leaves ample room for torture.” But an HLS first-year, Justin R. Walker, said he approved...
Which leads us to the status quo, Harvard as a highly rational and bureaucratic, university—one that chooses its students based, in part, on exams and measures the worth of its professors, in part, by seeing the numbers of journal articles they have published...