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...House minority leader is the highest ranking woman in congressional history, laid out a five-point plan that included a call for improved public education, more funding for research and development, universal broadband access, energy independence, and a better regulatory climate for small businesses. Each proposal was further broken down into specific planks, with provisions such as universal health care access—which Pelosi said would reduce costs for small businesses—and the addition of 100,000 scientists and engineers to the workforce—which Pelosi said was essential to maintain U.S. economic competitiveness...
...general consciousness of Europe, Judt suggests, the West reached a consensus that there is "no way to justify public policies or actions that cause real suffering today in the name of speculative benefits tomorrow." Even Europe's idealists realized, writes Judt, that "you cannot build a better society on broken men." When he analyzes how the communist regimes of Eastern Europe finally collapsed 16 years later, Judt argues against conventional wisdom: the credit belongs neither to Poland's Solidarity movement nor Ronald Reagan's big defense budgets, but to Mikhail Gorbachev as the true agent of change. The Soviet leader...
...what goes on here. Mostly, we’re blissfully indifferent.According to some student groups, that’s a problem: we don’t care. To ascertain as much, it is necessary only to flick through the pages of this campus publication, where stories of broken House grilles and Lamont cake riots far outnumber weighty local issues. The Institute of Politics group H-Vote tries desperately to get students registered to vote locally, but we make up only two percent of the voting public come election time, despite being a potentially decisive voting bloc.We value the city instead...
...vigorously they try is what concerns immigrants and their supporters. Tisha Tallman, a regional counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund who has been monitoring the Herndon situation, concedes that U.S. immigration law is "broken and does not correspond with our current reality." The bills that have been circulating in Congress take different, sometimes overlapping approaches to the problem. The most divisive issue among them is whether undocumented immigrants should be required to return to their home country before applying for a work visa or whether they could get guest-worker status without leaving...
...keep showing up at labor centers to take pictures, and the immigrants will keep coming to look for jobs. What happens between them will continue to make witnesses queasy, not just because of the looming risk of violence but also because of a sense that the system is badly broken. "This is America," says Keenan Strand, owner of the McDonald's restaurant across the street from the Macehualli center. "You can't just walk up to someone with brown skin, photograph them and demand their papers." For now, it appears...