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...born laborers has shaved the incomes of U.S. high school dropouts as much as 8%--and taken their jobs in industries like food service and construction. Of the 4.8 million net new workers who entered the labor force from 2000 to 2005, 4.1 million were recent immigrants, says Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University. "If you're young and male and a high school dropout, chances are you've been displaced by an illegal immigrant," he says. Forcing supplanted workers to find other employment, however, may encourage them to improve their skills...
...conservative”—to a recent gift supporting Islamic studies at Harvard suggest that this is indeed where we live. The headline of a recent article in the Crimson Magazine reads “No Strings Attached? A generous prince left Harvard a hefty sum. But might his ties to the Arab world affect this gift?” The implication is that by accepting a gift for Islamic studies, Harvard may become beholden to the wrong sorts of people—perhaps even somehow furthering the cause of terrorism. The Harvard Salient, which is funded...
...defiance of the laws of first-grade math, the sum of all of these parts feels a lot smaller than the ultimate product. One of the production team’s mistakes might have been pirating off of filmmakers who are still making films, so its effort fails to stand out among other recent releases. McGuigan and Smilovic might have benefited from copying Tarantino one step further by looking for inspiration from a couple of decades before their own time...
...owes thanks to the University’s central administration for funding HFAI and for committing to support it in future years should the Faculty of Arts and Sciences be unable to fund it. Although we are dismayed by the tuition jump—$43,655 is no small sum for a student and his family—we recognize that tuition increases are inevitable and often necessary. Harvard exists in the midst of a world of economic realities. Expenses go up outside the gates of the Yard, and so the price of attending the College naturally rises as well...
...describes himself as a junk dealer ("I buy troubled stuff and turn it around," he says), has a history of contrarian investments. When he purchased 807 miles of nationally owned railway stock from the Canadian government for $11 million in 1997, he also picked up, for the token sum of roughly $8, the port of Churchill, Manitoba...