Word: accountants
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...American Immigration Reform, disagrees. "Immigrants are afforded the opportunity to pursue life, liberty, happiness and the American dream," he says. "In exchange, they promise to be law-abiding residents and not public charges." The cuts will hit particularly hard in four states ? California, Florida, Texas and New York ? that account for three-quarters of all non-citizens on food stamps. As Rivera warns: "It's a very dangerous trend ... it won't take long for the Government to see the results of forcing the poor to go hungry...
Eason Jordan, president of CNN International, emerged last Saturday from his seventh visit to North Korea since 1994. Here is his account of that country's famine...
...things weren't so simple back on Earth, where news organizations seemed to be divided over whose account to trust, NASA or the Russian Space Agency. Russian Mission Control, who had had the most recent conversation with the cosmonauts and claimed everything was fine, did not seem to be quoted as often as NASA ? who were still fretting based on an earlier conversation with Michael Foale. We'll find out for sure on Tuesday, when Mir comes back into communication range...
Next on the list is Apple's fuzzy marketing message. (Quick: Can you think of it?) Jobs dismissed Apple's ad agency and held a "bake-off" for the account among three firms. The winner was TBWA Chiat/Day, the company that created Apple's legendary 1984 Super Bowl ad (only to be fired). Jobs is wildly enthusiastic about the new ad, which features the theme "Think Differently," but when he plays it for his inner team at the Castle Tuesday night, the group nixes it as not ready for prime time. Look for it soon, however. "There's a germ...
Though early yesterday the University refused to comment on the book, it later issued a brief statement challenging Thernstrom's account...