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...immigration woes along the border? -Mario Quintero in Indio, Calif.You can't lump everything into one piece of legislation, I don't think. I think we are a country of immigrants and I see hardworking people every day who come here and I believe it to be our greatest asset. So you better not be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Just look at who is driving cabs and who is in the kitchens. It is the latest people who got here, you know? It's the entry-level jobs. You can sit there and raise all the hell...
...useful to tally up the ironies that are piling up outside the Veep's door. Cheney was chosen by Bush as a running mate in 2000 not because he had any visible political assets but because he had no political liabilities. He was believed to be just what Bush needed: a chief operating officer who would give great advice, based on his years of experience, and who, because he had no ambitions for his boss's job, wouldn't have his own agenda. But as it turned out, a lot of his advice, delivered privately, has been poor - and some...
When Iger took over the top job at Disney in 2005, many dismissed the new chief, a onetime local-TV weatherman who had risen steadily through the corporate ranks, as a lackey of the previous CEO, the notoriously difficult Michael Eisner, whose boldness was often considered an asset. Many inside and outside Disney questioned whether Iger, 56, had the maverick's instincts to run the storied company. Shareholders Stanley Gold and Roy Disney even filed a lawsuit to void his election by Disney's directors...
...thought of supermarkets—he knew he needed what was on the shelves but had no idea how it got there. The same cannot be said of his successor, Robert C. Darnton ’60, whose prior expertise in the study of books field is a rare asset for a professor starting his term as director of the University Library.With volumes including “The Literary Underground of the Old Regime” and “The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France” to his name, Darnton brings strong academic assets...
...event, Ahern still turned out to be the greatest asset for his party, Fianna Fail. A relentless campaigner with a flair for projecting himself as an ordinary guy - the entire country seems to be on first-name terms with him - he also earned the nickname "Teflon Taoiseach" by sliding away from a web of corruption scandals without a stain. Over the past three weeks he pulled out all the all the stops and called in favors from old friends. Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair endorsed him in a campaign video and he cleverly timed plaudits...