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...Well-designed temporary labor and permanent migration schemes, he argues, offer the best long-term options for poor and rich economies alike: "For one thing, Australia won't need to keep paying aid money, and it will get the benefit of the labor." At last week's Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Papua New Guinea, the 16 member states agreed to an extensive reform plan on economic integration, governance and security. But Prime Minister John Howard, reflecting longstanding opposition to guest workers, would not be swayed on a proposal to allow seasonal labor into Australia. "We apply an open...
...pressure off Pacific leaders to reform their economies and improve their governance. Certainly, Australia's development (and security) ideal must be to help create stable and self-sustaining neighbors. To this end, Howard has announced that Australia will fund a regional technical college. Still, labor mobility remains on the Forum's formal agenda. Despite the myriad objections, a country of 10 million workers can afford at least to test a scheme for a few thousand temporary foreign workers, incorporating lessons from other Western countries. It may or may not bear fruit. But given the malaise of Australia's neighbors...
...event, held at the Kennedy School’s John F. Kennedy, Jr., Forum, was coupled with the Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics, delivered by Peter Beinart, the editor of The New Republic and author of a forthcoming book on liberalism...
...Colored Museum. BlackCAST, the black community and student theater group on campus, presents The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe. This satire illuminates issues on black oppression and stereotypes throughout history in the medium of modern art. Agassiz Theater. 8:30 p.m. $7. (TMN)Purerockfury.com Concert. The popular web forum hosts a show featuring an eclectic mix of musicians, including Asect, Woodland Creatures, Superkollider, Driven, Counterculture, and Something Against You. 18+. The Middle East Upstairs. 8 p.m. $10. (MFK)Ongoing EventsLulu. Visiting director Brendan Hughes joins the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club to present Frank Wedekind’s controversial German...
...Chief U.N. Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Del Ponte shared her experiences prosecuting war criminals—including former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic—with a large gathering of undergraduate and graduate students in the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum. In her first speech to an American university audience, just a month before the 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials, Del Ponte discussed how her tribunal attempts to address the unlawful actions of political and military leaders from the former Yugoslavia. Born in Lugano, Switzerland, the 52-year-old Del Ponte rose...