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...Most of the obvious attacks on a Presidential candidate Bloomberg would come from the right. Conservative activists would assail his views on gay marriage, the death penalty, gun control and taxes as typical New York City liberalism. Both sides would say he lacked national security experience and explore his background, looking for business and personal vulnerabilities. Bloomberg would try to fight off the efforts to define him with hundreds of millions of dollars of television commercials, and would likely spend a similar amount trying to define the other candidates as out of touch and extreme...
...Senate measure immediately grants illegal aliens a temporary visa, and then, after two years, the possibility of qualifying for a so-called Z-visa, which gives them eight years to fulfill a series of hurdles (including medical and background checks, English and civics classes, $1,500 in fines and - for heads of households - a return trip to their country of origin to symbolically reenter the country legally) before they can apply for green-card permanent resident status. Green card holders can apply for citizenship after five years...
Although it has long been the domain of male fighters, Vale Tudo is increasingly attracting young women with a background in martial arts from all over the world. "Brazilian women are the best in the world today," said Daniel Otero, who is 24 and one of the world's foremost Vale Tudo fighters. Otero and others involved with the sport here believe that both Brazilian men and women have an advantage because they are often experts in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is the art of grappling on the ground developed by world-renowned fighter Helio Gracie, and popularized...
Although Starr’s artwork appeared as the background of a Discover Card in 1995, he was initially reluctant to publicize it any further, Glaeser said...
...went on to say that people should continue to pay attention to lingering crises that are often pushed to the background, even if newspapers and television outlets shed little light on them...