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Value Lodging. Hampton Inn is offering 10% off rates at participating hotels Thursday through Sunday through Jan. 5, 2009, along with a $10 Visa gift card (mailed to you within a week of your stay). Rooms come with a complimentary hot breakfast and hi-speed Internet access. Plus, you'll earn 250 Hilton HHonors bonus points per stay toward rooms at any Hilton property...
...hyperinflation and food shortages, Zimbabwe faces a cholera outbreak that killed more than 50 people on Nov. 24. While talks between the country's two main political parties are back on, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter--who, along with former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, was denied an entry visa--called the crisis "much worse than we had ever imagined...
However Cuba changes, there will be difficult times with its neighbor to the north. Even before the murderous enticement of Washington's wet-foot, dry-foot policy that rewards Cubans who survive the trip across the waters with citizenship (while denying many visa requests made through proper channels in Havana)--even before Fidel Castro--relationships have been uneasy between Cuba and the U.S., which essentially colonized the island after Spain left in 1898. There was the U.S. administrator who in the early 1900s announced plans to "whiten" the population. And the 1901 Platt Amendment, which helped carve the U.S. Naval...
...economy,” those with postsecondary degrees are essential to the economic wellbeing and competitiveness of the United States. But in spite of our nation’s voracious appetite for well-educated professionals, our immigration system—specifically, the allocation of H-1B visas for gainfully employed graduates of American educational institutions—is woefully out of date. By redesigning the H-1B system, policymakers from both sides of the aisle can help schools like Harvard to contribute to the future economic growth of the United States. In the meantime, Harvard should make sure its students...
...years' imprisonment for conflict of interest, has hinted at a political comeback. Earlier this month from self-imposed exile, he divorced his wife in a sham process designed to protect assets that are in her name. Almost immediately after, the former PM, who recently had his British visa revoked and is scrambling to find a new home in exile, unveiled his new think-tank called Building a Better Future Foundation. In giant ads in international newspapers, Thaksin instructed readers: "Are you one of Asia's best talents? Join...