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...real problem, of course, is the visa system, which ought to raise the annual limit. The H-1B program brings valuable expertise to U.S. industry and helps retain skilled workers educated in American institutions. Under current immigration rules, America risks educating some of the world’s brightest students and best talent, only to watch them take their skills elsewhere after graduation...
Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 recently informed the Undergraduate Council (UC) of a five-step plan to address the problem, calling for the Records and Requirements Office to work with the Registrar on a degree audit during the spring semester, in an attempt to determine which international seniors will be eligible for a visa provided they complete their final semester successfully. He also hopes that the Registrar will notify professors teaching affected students so that grades can be submitted as soon as possible and have signed letters on hand to be sent to appropriate...
...interrupted by splotches of purple silk—beautiful, but entirely out of place.Cusk’s poignant and intuitive portrayal of the frustrations of being a young housewife and her ability to evoke understanding and sympathy for her characters is amazing, yet therein lies the greatest problem: “Arlington Park” is too saturated with the miseries of domestic life. It is unrealistic that every mom in a casual group that meets outside the school gates is wildly unhappy with her life as wife and mother. In spite of their (slightly) different situations...
...second consisting of Munro’s partially fictionalized recollections of her own life. For much of the first section, Munro’s attempts to imagine, describe and fill in the details of the lives of her ancestors in Scotland’s Ettrick Valley run into the problem that most historical narratives and memoirs have to deal with: real life doesn’t proceed at all like fiction. It has no well-structured plot or narrative, and one thing doesn’t elegantly lead to another.As a result, the writer has to make do with some...
...next tour took him to the Russian city of Samara. There, aside from "drinking like mad," Gaucho learned something about xenophobia and racism. "For me the color is not a problem," he says in the mostly present-tense English he picked up from a former teammate from Costa Rica. "Africans had a problem [in Russia] and I had a problem because I was with the African guys." He adds: "I have some stories to tell...