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Some plays are obscure for obvious reasons; with others, the fact that they’re not more well-known seems outrageously unfair once you’ve seen them. Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Utopia, Limited” is of the latter category...
...announced that the supply of a key type of work visa had dried up in a single day—months before all but a handful of Harvard students could apply. The federal policy of cutting off educated and productive workers from overseas isn’t only unfair to those across the world who want a share in the American dream—it’s a bad policy for those of us who already live here. The federal government should dramatically raise the Congressionally-mandated cap on the H-1B high-skill work visa if not lift...
...Scholar and a Gentleman James Graff's profile of François Bayrou [March 26], although most interesting, seemed to give an unfair and somewhat distorted impression of the French presidential candidate's intellectual background. I am writing here as an academic, not a politician. Bayrou is a farmer's son, for sure, and a gentleman farmer, probably. But while he is no product of a French administrative or political grande école, he is a doctor of literature. He is, therefore, quite an erudite individual. No nitwit! And an excellent, learned writer in his own right. Françoise...
...when Indonesia-the country that has suffered the most bird-flu deaths-suddenly stopped sharing virus samples and instead signed an agreement with the U.S. drug company Baxter to provide virus strains in exchange for help in eventually producing its own vaccine. Jakarta health officials argued that it was unfair for them to give away viruses that might be used to make a pandemic vaccine Indonesia-and other developing countries-would never be able to afford. With global flu-vaccine production capacity topping out at 500 million doses a year and everyone in the world clamoring for a shot should...
...there are legitimate reasons why some students would be better served at Harvard than at other institutions, such as being unhappy or unchallenged. As such, they deserve a chance at admission commensurate with freshman applicants. Shortchanging these students by halving the number who are admitted is unwise and unfair...