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...holder can remain in the country for six years. But the number of such visas issued annually is currently capped at 65,000. Harvard students who fail to obtain an H-1B visa can still work in the U.S. for up to 12 months under a program called Optional Practical Training (OPT). But students staying in the U.S. under that program can only seek jobs connected to their field of study.That’s not the only drawback of OPT. While students with a year-long extension could conceivably re-apply for H-1B status, they?...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Diploma in Hand, But Visa in Limbo | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

...year-long civil war—1914 to the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991— spilled oceans of blood and piled mountains of corpses, and left Europeans totally spiritually exhausted,” Weigel said...

Author: By Siodhbhra M. Parkin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Theologian Warns of E.U. Crisis | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

...This year marks the first time that Ec10 students can elect to take just one semester of the previously indivisible year-long course. Ec10’s infamous structure, however, appears to be here to stay: the course only meets for lecture about ten times a semester and is primarily taught in section by graduate students. Competent TFs are a rare treat in Ec10, so much so that one popular section leader from the Law School drew nearly 100 desperate undergrads to her final review session last spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Social Analysis 10, "Principles of Economics" | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...lens of popular culture. The boys from “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” would be proud. Disappointingly, the course will no longer be offered. The department itself is undergoing numerous changes, both in the courses it offers and its leadership. Having taken a year-long absence, Bradley Epps will formally take over as Head of the Department for the next three years. A fall course he is offering—WGS 1222, “Literature, Art, Cinema, and Queerness” will likely be packed with eager beavers awaiting his return...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women, Gender, and Sexuality | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...work of evil spirits. In northern Uganda, well over 1 million of the Acholi people live in camps like the one at Anaka. But a truce last week between the Ugandan government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (lra) offers real hope that the gruesome, almost 20-year-long power struggle is finally over. The government may finally make good on its promises to resettle camp residents. The Acholi will do everything they can to make sure evil spirits don't follow. Northern Uganda has seen a lot of evil, at least since the (lra) began its infamous terror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warding Off The Evils of Civil War | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

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