John D. Black Professor Forest L. Reinhardt and Assistant Professor Michael W. Toffel, both of Harvard Business School, have won the 2009 D. Alfred N. and Lynn Manos Page Prize for sustainability issues in business curricula.
Reinhardt and Toffel were recognized for their second-year M.B.A. elective “Business and the Environment,” which focuses on identifying and following through on opportunities to create business value from environmental and sustainability issues.
The Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP), a University-wide initiative that seeks to develop innovative answers to today’s complex environmental challenges, recently awarded four prizes to Harvard University students for the best research papers addressing a topic in environmental, energy, or resource economics. HEEP presented one prize for the best undergraduate paper, senior thesis, master’s student paper, and doctoral student paper. Supported by the Enel Endowment for Environmental Economics at Harvard and the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation, each prize was accompanied by a monetary award.
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As promised, LG’s mid-range, QWERTY, Android-powered slider (phew), the Ally, is now available from Verizon.
Just think: somewhere out there, keen LG/Iron Man 2/Android fans are braving the harsh Spring conditions, waiting for their favourite Verizon stores to open. The less adventurous of the devout would have just pre-ordered it, but where’s the honour in that?
You can grab the Ally for $99.99 after a not-at-all-annoying $100 mail-in rebate on a two-year contract from Verizon. Rocket boots not included.
Diana L. Eck, Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society and professor of comparative religion and Indian studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), was the speaker for Berea College’s 138th Commencement on May 23, and will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.
Eck, who has taught at Harvard for more than 30 years, is also a Harvard Divinity School faculty member and an award-winning author and researcher on religious pluralism in America.
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has named Michael Hooper, Rahul Mehrotra, and Joyce Klein Rosenthal to the GSD faculty, effective July 2010.
Hooper, who has been appointed assistant professor of urban planning, will receive his Ph.D. from the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources at Stanford University this month (May). His research interests focus on the politics of land use and urbanization, participatory planning and governance, and civil society mobilization.
Mehrotra, a practicing architect, urban designer, and professor of architectural design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Urban Planning, has been named professor of urban design and planning and chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design. He has written and lectured extensively on architecture, conservation, and urban planning in Mumbai.
Rosenthal, a lecturer at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, has been named assistant professor of urban planning at the GSD. Rosenthal’s research interests are in environmental planning, sustainable development, and the public health impacts of urbanization, with a particular present focus on spatial and social determinants of heat islands and heat-related health outcomes.
Three accomplished leaders have been named recipients of 2010 Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) alumni awards. The awards were presented during ceremonies at the School on May 14-15.
Mehmet Daimaguler, M.P.A. ’05, was named winner of the 2010 Rising Star Award, which recognizes HKS alumni who, within six years of beginning their careers, have “hit the ground running” as leaders, catalysts for change, or people who are making a meaningful difference to individuals, organizations, or governments.
Susan Ople, M.P.A. ’99, is recipient of the Alumni Achievement Award, designed to recognize HKS alumni who, after more than six years in their careers, have made a significant contribution to improving the human condition on a local, state/provincial, national, or international stage, in any sector.
Robert Min Xie, M.P.A./M.C. ’94, was named winner of the Julius E. Babbitt Memorial Alumni Volunteer Award, named in honor of Julius Babbitt, M.P.A. ’01, and given each year to a graduate of the Kennedy School who has demonstrated uncommon commitment to his or her fellow alumni to advance the spirit of volunteerism and service to the School and the alumni community. To read more about the winners.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has recently awarded the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize to 89 Harvard College seniors, in recognition of outstanding research or scholarly work. The prize is funded by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes ’19. To view the list of recipients, including their research and advisers.
The American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, recently elected eight new members from Harvard into this year’s class of scholars.
The society, founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose of “promoting useful knowledge,” honors and engages distinguished scientists, humanists, social scientists, and leaders in civic and cultural affairs through elected membership and opportunities for interdisciplinary, intellectual fellowship, particularly in the semiannual meetings in Philadelphia. Since 1900, more than 240 members have received the Nobel Prize.
This year’s elected members from Harvard follow:
Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Class 1): Lisa Randall, Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science in the Department of Physics, and Shlomo Zvi Sternberg, George Putnam Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics in the Mathematics Department.
Biological Sciences (Class 2): Gregory A. Petsko, lecturer on neurology at Harvard Medical School.
Social Sciences (Class 3): Cass R. Sunstein, administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs; Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law (on leave) at Harvard Law School, and Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard Law School.
Humanities (Class 4): Janet Browne, Aramont Professor of the History of Science in the Department of the History of Science; and Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture in the Department of History of Art and Architecture.
The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs (Class 5): Martha Minow, dean of the Faculty of Law and Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, has been named a fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute, an international nonprofit association that provides a forum for debate and dialogue among academics, legislators, and practitioners regarding major corporate governance issues with the intention of promoting best practice.
Fellows are named in recognition of their demonstrated excellence or other outstanding achievements in the field of corporate governance. Lerner’s most recent book, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed — and What to Do About It” (Princeton University Press, 2009), recently won the 2010 Axiom Business Book Award Gold Medal for the best book on entrepreneurship. It previously won the 2009 PROSE Award for Excellence in the business, management, and finance category.
Banks’ aversion to providing loans to small business, ie. the tightening of their lending standards, is finally coming full circle. As shown below by the light gray line, banks have loosened their stance towards small business lending back to even what appears to be pre-crisis levels.
Morgan Stanley’s Richard Berner:
Easier credit arriving: Small business credit availability is still tight, mainly because of falling home prices; real estate constitutes both wealth and collateral for small business owners. But easier credit is arriving, thanks to improved prospects for small business sales, limited downside in home prices, improved terms in ABS markets and the end to banks’ tighter lending standards.
Interestingly, Mr. Berner’s chart shows that banks’ optimism towards small business seems to have rebounded faster than small businesses’ own optimism!
(Via Morgan Stanley, Global Monetary Analyst, 26 May 2010)
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Sometimes an advertising tag-line is so right, people remember it for decades. In the automotive realm, BMW’s “Ultimate Driving Machine” and Cadillac’s “Standard of the World” stand out and catch on. Apparently “excellence for all” didn’t. The new ad line was developed by Publicis Worldwide which had been tapped to replace Campbell-Ewald as Chevrolet’s ad agency just over a month ago.
New General Motors VP of Marketing Joel Ewanick dropped Publicis barely a week after taking the job and the tag-line which had only been used in some print ads in recent weeks won’t be seen again. New television ads that are running now close out with “everyone deserves excellence” and the main focus is on the so-called “Red-x” quality engineers.
With Ewanick clearly taking charge at GM marketing, it will be interesting to see what new Chevrolet agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners comes up with. Make the jump for the aforementioned Red-X engineers spot.
[Source: Automotive News – Sub. Req.]
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We recently had a discussion about the legalities of fan fiction, and how some authors were adamantly against the concept (even if their views were on shaky legal grounds). While it is true that certain derivative works can be stopped, that also doesn’t mean it’s a smart thing, from the perspective of cultivating fans. Reader Eilieen now points us to the news of a fan-made film that builds on Joss Whedon’s Firefly TV show and Serenity movie:
“Browncoats: Redemption was made by the fans for the fans,” director Michael Dougherty explained to Wired.com by e-mail. “But we view this as an independent film; we had Firefly fans travel from all over the U.S. to volunteer their time as extras and other supportive roles in its production. Without them, this film would not exist, and it will only be successful with their continued help and support.”
Unfortunately, the article at Wired totally leaves out the question of whether or not the copyright holders know about this particular fan film, and if they’re okay with it. Plenty of movie makers — such as George Lucas — are perfectly happy with fan flicks, even to the point of encouraging them. But, in this case, it’s not clear if this is, in any way, sanctioned. While the filmmakers say they’re doing this for charity, that still suggests they’re hoping to make some money from the film to give to charity — which often is the trigger that sets off Hollywood lawyers.
Whedon, for his part, has always been good about cultivating super-loyal fans, and at the same time, of experimenting with smart business models. But, not everyone associated with Firefly/Serentiy have always been so sharp. Back when Universal Studios tried to market Serenity via its biggest fans, the lawyers at Universal (apparently kept separate from the marketers) tried to demand licensing fees from the fans that the marketing department was urging to promote the film.
Looking over the site of the movie itself, it does suggest that they were able to secure permission from everyone necessary — including both Universal and Fox (who ran the TV show) along with Whedon himself:
So here’s how it is, we’ve reached out to FOX, Universal Studios, Joss’ agent at CAA, and even Mary Parent who is now at MGM. Everyone we’ve dealt with has been extremely helpful and completely blown away the stereotype of what the Hollywood experience is like. And much to our surprise, we even have the blessing of Joss Whedon himself. We’ve reached out to both Fox and Universal to get a greater understanding of the legal permissions we needed to make this a reality and we set out to complete it. And thanks to mighty fine Browncoats like yourself…we have.
That’s slightly cryptic, but it sounds like all the legal permissions were granted, and perhaps this fan film will go ahead with all the official blessings. While it’s silly that such a permission-based culture is necessary, just to make a film celebrating something that people love, at the very least, it’s nice to see some Hollywood folks recognizing that fan fiction and fan films aren’t inherently bad things.
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[JURIST] Lehman Brothers Holdings [corporate website] on Wednesday filed suit [complaint, PDF] against JPMorgan Chase & Co. [corporate website] for allegedly “siphoning” off billions of dollars in “critically-needed” assets days before the investment bank filed for a record-breaking bankruptcy. JPMorgan was Lehman’s main short-term lender before its collapse and acted acted as a middleman between Lehman and its investors. In the complaint, Lehman accused JPMorgan executives of using inside knowledge to take advantage of Lehman during its financial downfall and pressured the brokerage firm to turn over $8.6 billion in collateral in September 2008. The last-minute transactions allegedly accelerated Lehman’s free fall into bankruptcy, costing the investment bank tens of billions of dollars in “lost value.” The complaint, which was filed in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York [official
website] in Manhattan, is seeking monetary relief for JPMorgan’s contribution in Lehman’s downfall as a result of its wrongful conduct:
JPMorgan’s insistence on the new agreements in August and September 2008, its unjustified demands for billions in additional collateral, and its refusal to return that collateral in the critical days before [Lehman’s] bankruptcy filing, severely constrained [Lehman’s] liquidity and impeded its ability to pursue and implement alternatives and initiatives that would have resulted in the preservation of billions in value. Instead, [Lehman’s] liquidity constraints compelled an exigent chapter 11 filing that has resulted in tens of billions of dollars in additional lost value to the [Lehman] estate and its creditors. … It is now too late to undo all the harm caused by the [Lehman] bankruptcy. It is not too late, however, to return to [Lehman’s] estate and its creditors the billions of dollars of [Lehman] assets that JPMorgan illegally converted and continues to hold, and to compensate [Lehman] for all the damages that flow directly from JPMorgan’s misconduct. This lawsuit seeks to return that value to the [Lehman] estate and to restore all of the creditors to the position they would have occupied but for JPMorgan’s wrongful conduct.
A spokesperson for JPMorgan responded to the complaint [WSJ report] calling the suit “ill-conceived and meritless.” In March, a bankruptcy judge approved an accord providing for JPMorgan to return several billion dollars of assets to Lehman’s estate but giving Lehman a right to sue
further.
The collapse of complex financial firms such as Lehman Brothers has spurred government action to increase regulation and oversight. Last week, the US Senate [official website] passed [JURIST report] the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 [S 3217 materials], focused on increasing regulation in the financial sector following the recent economic crisis [JURIST news archive]. The bill creates a new regulatory council to monitor financial institutions in order to prevent the companies from becoming “too big to fail.” It also gives the Federal Reserve [official website] the power to supervise the largest financial companies and report to the government any risks the firms may pose to the economy at large. Additionally, a new consumer protection division will be established within the Federal Reserve to enforce rules against certain business practices like abusive mortgage lending and some credit card practices. As a final protection against future bailouts, the government will have the ability to seize and liquidate failing financial institutions before their collapse can have an adverse affect on the entire economy. US President Barack Obama praised the bill, but opponents of the legislation expressed concern that its passage will stifle the economy. The Senate bill has to be reconciled with the bill passed last December [JURIST report] by the US House of Representatives [official website] before Obama can sign it into law.
Yesterday I spent the afternoon inside the Chick-fil-a sanctum sanctorum — i.e., the company headquarters — with AJC business reporter Jeremiah McWilliams. A large group from the product development, marketing and public relations teams met us in the test kitchen, where one wall was covered with a red tarp to shield it from our view. I assume it was shelving filled with proprietary seasonings and spices, though I suppose it could have been a voodoo altar with pins sticking from a Double Down.
After a thorough presentation of the company’s research and development methodology, we learned how the Spicy Chicken Sandwich came to be. This new product — which officially hits Chick-fil-a’s 1400-plus stores on June 7 — has been on the boards since 2004, and in active development since 2008.
Chick-fil-a is milking the huge anticipation for this product — long requested by customers — for everything it can get. As you’ve probably heard, customers who signed up online were able to …
Fed up with the defamatory content found on one website on the Internet, Bordentown Mayor James E. Lynch Jr. convinced City Council members to pass a law forcing the hosting service of that website to take down its pages.
The website BordentownMayorReallySucks.com greets visitors with a raunchy dose of criti… (read more)
Mini Beachcomber Concept
The Mini Moke is back… well, almost. Mini bosses are currently looking at whether or not to put the buggy-inspired Beachcomber concept into production. Mini says that the new Countryman based crossover concept was a huge hit at the 2010 Detroit Motor Show in January.
“We will come back to this to see if there is a business basis, as we were overwhelmed by the reaction. MINI will never show a concept that won’t make production,” said head of brand management Dr Wolfgang Armbrecht.
The Mini Beachcomber Concept was built around the road-going version of the Countryman, but gave up two doors to pay tribute to the Mini Moke – the legendary Mini-based take on the classic beach buggy.
Would you like to see the Beachcomber go into production? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section after the jump.
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Source: AutoExpress
Germany may look like the healthy heart of Europe right now, but the country’s demographic position could see its competitive edge fall flat, according to Der Spiegel.
With all eyes currently on the short term crisis in European debt, observers may be overlooking Europe’s more long term demographic sickness. But Germany, faced with a declining birth rate and an increase in emigration that now sees more people leaving the country than entering, is starting to wake up.
The country has already tried policies to encourage family growth that have thus far failed, according to Der Spiegel. And Germany’s key country for immigration, Turkey, is now not such a boon, with net 10,000 Turks returning rather than coming to Germany.
But Germany’s problems still pale in comparison to many other European states, where declining birthrates and restrictive policies on immigration have halted population growth.
The issue of preventing immigration from all Muslim countries took center stage in recent local elections.
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2007: 6.6%
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2035: 10%
Change in working age population by 2020: -4.3%
Source: 2009 EU Aging Report
Luxembourg has the highest amount of foreign born citizens in any country in Europe.
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2007: 8.7%
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2035: 17%
Change in working age population by 2020: -1.1%
Source: 2009 EU Aging Report
Denmark has very strict immigration rules which prevent the wives and husbands of naturalized citizens from moving to the country for 28 years after their spouse’s naturalization.
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2007: 9.1%
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2035: 11%
Change in working age population by 2020: -4.3%
Source: 2009 EU Aging Report
The head of Bulgaria’s immigration team has recently been arrested for illegally helping foreigners get citizenship.
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2007: 8.3%
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2035: 9.0%
Change in working age population by 2020: -5.6%
Source: 2009 EU Aging Report
Czech pension profits grew by 720 Million Kc (40 Million) while membership grew in private pensions to 4.47 million people.
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2007: 7.8%
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2035: 7.6%
Change in working age population by 2020: -8.3%
Source: 2009 EU Aging Report
New EU rules on traveling without a visa are supplying a large amount of Balkan immigrants to Belgium since the beginning of the year.
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2007: 10%
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2035: 14%
Change in working age population by 2020: -3.5%
Source: 2009 EU Aging Report
Poland is keeping steady in its plan on pensions, hoping that a slight increase in returns and increasing the retirement age will allow the program to remain in good stead.
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2007: 12%
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2035: 9.3%
Change in working age population by 2020: -5.7%
Source: 2009 EU Aging Report
Hungary is attempting to take advantage of foreign discrimination against Indians by offering them places in their universities.
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2007: 11%
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2035: 12%
Change in working age population by 2020: -5.0%
Source: 2009 EU Aging Report
Italy experienced nationwide strikes of immigrant workers on March 1 showing the signs of tension within the country.
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2007: 14%
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2035: 15%
Change in working age population by 2020: -3.0%
Source: 2009 EU Aging Report
Sweden has a policy of “integration” for its immigrants giving them the language and cultural skills necessary to survive in the country.
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2007: 9.5%
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2035: 9.4%
Change in working age population by 2020: -6.0%
Source: 2009 EU Aging Report
Malta, a relatively closed post-colonial state, is experiencing an influx of immigration which some are saying is a positive move for its society.
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2007: 7.2%
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2035: 9.7%
Change in working age population by 2020: -7.1%
Source: 2009 EU Aging Report
Greece is making moves to give the children of migrant workers citizenship, but there is a substantial backlash to these political moves.
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2007: 12%
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2035: 19%
Change in working age population by 2020: -3.9%
Source: 2009 EU Aging Report
France is preventing an immigrant from Morocco from getting citizenship because he makes his wife wear an “Islamic veil.”
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2007: 13%
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2035: 14%
Change in working age population by 2020: -5.5%
Source: 2009 EU Aging Report
Finland experienced a 48% increase in asylum seekers last year, with most coming from Iraq and Somalia.
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2007: 10%
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2035: 14%
Change in working age population by 2020: -8.5%
Source: 2009 EU Aging Report
Slovenia’s pension scheme remained balanced for 2009, with spent and received 4.6 Billion Euros ($6.3 Billion).
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2007: 9.9%
Pension cost compared to GDP in 2035: 15%
Change in working age population by 2020: -6.6%
Source: 2009 EU Aging Report
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In this final post in our series of "Notes on the Making of A New Literary History of America," adapted from a talk given by co-editor Greil Marcus at the International Conference on Narrative, Marcus talks about what Ann Marlowe’s essay “Linda Lovelace’s Ordeal” (which you can read here) revealed about the evolution of the American voice—a progression central to the book. Parts one, two, three, and four in this series appeared earlier.
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When Ann Marlowe took up Linda Lovelace, she watched “Deep Throat,” and then found and read all four of Linda Lovelace’s autobiographies. The first two—in which Lovelace declared that she lived for violation and libertinism and loved every second—were written by others. The second two, written with a co-author—with Ordeal, in 1980, the book that mattered—she was a sex slave, violated at every turn. But what Marlowe found was, in a negative sense, the whole story our own book had put itself together to tell—the search for a national voice, a form of speech that everyone could understand, and speak in turn. The true speech of democracy. At bottom, the book was nothing more than hundreds of different speakers, calling out to each other, to the past, to the future, to the present they were trying to enact, to make up the language of the made-up country as if it were everyone’s right to found the nation for the first time.
“Lovelace’s voice,” Marlowe writes—Lovelace describing how her mother gave up the child Lovelace had at twenty—never even mentioning, Marlowe notes, if it was a boy or a girl, only that it was in Lovelace’s word illegitimate—“Lovelace’s voice is the studiously bland voice we hear every day from politicians, in the smugness of op-eds, in the passive-aggressive niceness of airline employees. Hypocrisy has always been with us, but the mimicking of the colorless tone of down to earth ‘good folks,’ of what was once called Middle America, seems to have become prevalent after World War II.” As Gerald Early guessed, and Marlowe found, Linda Lovelace spoke the speech of our time. “The deliberate impersonation of a blameless dailiness”—and what a phrase that is, “blameless dailiness” all but hiding its argument, that in the present day all speech is second hand, received, an impersonation—“may have been an artifact of television, television commercials, and the televising of political oratory. All of this created a national speech.”
That was the treasure of ashes the book finally unearthed, without for a moment looking for it. In the narrative the book itself was searching for, the cards lay where they fell, and the people who made the book picked them up where they lay.
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[JURIST] The Obama administration confirmed Tuesday that it will send 1,200 National Guard [official website] troops to the US-Mexican border in an effort to deter drug smuggling and illegal immigration. They will join the 300 National Guard troops and 26,000 border and customs officials already stationed at the border. The troops will assist [AP report] border agents in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, but will not be directly engaged in law enforcement activities. Additionally, the administration will request a $500 million supplemental appropriations bill from Congress in order to assist in law enforcement efforts along the border. Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) [official website] has expressed support [Miami Herald report] for the move, describing it as a good start. Arizona Senators John McCain (R) and Jon Kyl (R) [official websites] also described [press release] it as an “important first step,” but continued:
[T]he President is not sending enough troops. We believe the situation on the border is far worse today than it was [in 2006] due to the escalating violence between the Mexican drug cartels and the Mexican government. For this reason, we need to deploy at least 6,000 National Guard troops to the border region. The fact that President Obama announced today that he will only be sending one-fifth of the troops we believe are required is a weak start and does not demonstrate an understanding of the current situation in the region.
McCain and Kyl introduced an amendment [text, PDF] on Wednesday that would appropriate $250 million of unused funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 [text, PDF] to fund the deployment of 6,000 troops.
The deployment comes amid an effort by President Barack Obama to garner Republican support for proposed immigration reform legislation. Renewed pressure for congressional action on the issue has come after Arizona passed a bill [JURIST report] making it a state crime to be in the country illegally and requiring state police to verify the immigration status of those suspected of being in the country illegally. The bill has faced sharp criticism from Obama, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, and the international community [JURIST reports]. The effort is the first attempt at immigration reform since the failed [JURIST report] Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill [S 1639 materials] in 2007. In 2006, former US president George W. Bush [official profile] announced [JURIST report] the deployment of up to 6,000 National Guard troops to the Mexican border as a prime element in a wide-ranging plan to ‘fix’ problems created by illegal immigration.
