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...free-lance translators for both sites. It retains control of its "translation memory," the database of proprietary language that has already been translated. "Leaving it in the hands of a vendor is a big risk," says Alison Toon, an HP localization manager. "Then it's harder to shift from one translation company to another...
...Ivies pride and follow Yale’s lead on any issue. And considering the stinginess of Harvard vacations of the whole (almost three weeks for winter break is a wonderful accident this year), I wouldn’t hold my breath for such a sudden paradigm shift. But as a global university representing every state and practically every country, the University must acknowledge the travel realities of its student body and show a little effort at accommodation...
Even with the Taliban's surrender of Kunduz supposedly a done deal, the fighting for the last holdout town in northern Afghanistan was fierce on Thursday. And the confusion on the battlefield offered important clues as to the nature of the power shift in Afghanistan over the past month. Earlier Thursday, the commander of the Northern Alliance's Uzbek forces to the west of the city, General Rashid Dostum, announced that he had secured an agreement from Kunduz's Taliban commanders to lay down their arms by Sunday. But Northern Alliance Interior Minister Yunus Qanooni said from Kabul that cease...
Rather than emphasizing a single issue and a single number as it did last spring, PSLM has now engaged in a far more general effort, focusing on the shift to “nonstandard” work (part-time and temporary work, often through independent contractors) that has been observed throughout the American economy in the last 20 years. Reversing this shift at Harvard—bringing outsourced service work back in-house, moving part-time work to full-time positions, and taking new measures to ease the process of union organizing —would take a far greater...
...change that has normally been accompanied by a significant decrease in wages and benefits for the outsourced workers. Nearly half of the living wage campaign’s recent newsletter was devoted to the perils that outsourcing poses to Harvard’s labor force—a shift in emphasis made even more striking by the newsletter’s passing reference...