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...influx, indeed, was "almost certainly the largest-ever single wave of immigration that these islands have ever experienced," according to John Salt, professor of geography at University College London. With 10,000 arriving in Ireland each month since 2004, the country of 4 million people experienced the fastest period of population growth since the current system for measuring migrant flows was introduced in 1987. "What happened here in two years is what happened in other countries in a generation," says Sean Murray, head of economic migration for the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment in Dublin...
...Women’s Center and the Seneca, a group that has worn the mantle of “feminist” uneasily), it would be difficult to argue that women haven’t come a long way. Feminism is commonly split into three “waves.” During the First Wave—the women’s suffrage movement pioneered by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a host of other sidebars in American history textbooks—the term “feminism” wasn’t used at all. Once it entered...
Between the caricatures of the hedonist and Puritan poles lies a vast, silent swath of the student body that is consciously apolitical in regard to gender. In an age of irony and apathy, post-Third Wave feminism (see sidebar), women especially are willing to speak up for or against war, Social Security, or even a nebulous category of “women’s issues,” as long as they can keep a safe distance from the term feminism, which conjures images of angry, man-hating lesbians. Not only are Harvard’s conservatives and liberals...
...bill, which awaits Governor Tim Kaine’s signature, is a response to a wave of suicides that have plagued Virginia campuses. The measure’s sponsor, Albert C. Eisenberg, claims that the legislation will force universities to offer proper care, yet while the proposal is clearly well-intentioned, placing restrictions on universities’ reactions to mental health crises puts an undo strain on medical resources, and ultimately hurts the very people it intends...
...Popular discontent in Russia rises along with prices and utility rates. And in the absence of legitimate expression, it pours out into the street, where protests are met with clubs and smoke grenades of the riot police. Two years ago, the authorities spent $12 billion to quell a nationwide wave of protests, caused by abrupt canceling of social benefits, in order to prevent the dissent from growing into conspicuous melees in main cities like the one this weekend. But the money doled out then has been now superseded by the growing costs of life. And a new such massive financial...