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...Interior Minister and presidential hopeful Nicholas Sarkozy has advocated switching to a points-based immigration system. And Britain is already testing its own version, which targets both skilled and unskilled labor to fill gaps across the entire workforce. But Europe has generally been resistant to the idea. The main concern is that it would encourage illegal immigration (a problem that Canada, which shares its border with the world's richest country, doesn't have). There are an estimated 11-13 million non-European illegal immigrants in the E.U. But the European Commission is hoping to slash that number as part...
...Dutch workers "think it's their time to get something back," says Marco van Moort, spokesman for the biggest Dutch union, Bondgenoten FNV. Builders in the Netherlands recently negotiated themselves a 7% pay increase over 27 months, far above the inflation rate. The European Central Bank last week expressed concern that such wage hikes could stoke inflation...
Faust directed Radcliffe’s transformation into a leading research facility, bringing together scholars from various fields across the country. Former Radcliffe Fellows remember Faust’s attention and concern with them and their work. “Recently I was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute,” said Jacquelyn D. Hall, a professor of history at the University of North Carolina, “and that year I was president of the Organization of American Historians and I ran into some potentially very difficult problems.” Hall says she went straight to Faust?...
Teaching fellow performance has joined eating concerns, sexual health questions, and peer support networks in the realm of Harvard student hotlines. A new e-mail domain allowing student feedback on TF performance went live at 11:59 last night, after being arranged and approved by the Undergraduate Council (UC). Students who want to relay concerns—or compliments—about particular TFs can now send an e-mail to TF@hcs.harvard.edu and have their comments addressed confidentially and promptly, according to a bill unanimously passed by the UC yesterday. Crucial to the implementation of “The Teaching...
Saltonstall Professor of History Charles S. Maier ’60 echoed Eck’s sentiments, saying the Faculty should concern itself not with general education’s limits but with its flexibility. “As I remember being a student here, the real problem was that there was no time to take what I wanted to take,” he said...