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...Rachen Intawong, proprietor of the fashionable Nimmanhaemin boutique hotel, At Niman Conceptual Home. And if you want to know where to buy some of the street's coolest crafts, take a look at the list on the right. Just make sure there's plenty of slack in the credit card...
...first requires most of them to navigate a challenging schedule: two years in the U.S., followed by one year back home, then two more years in the U.S., one back home and so on. After eight years, they would get to stand in line for a green card...
Scheduling snafus may seem trifling, but they can devastate farmers. Crops rotted on the vine across the U.S. in a ripple effect from last year's slight uptick in immigration enforcement; imagine what a wholesale move to a perennially backlogged system could bring. David Card, a labor economist at the University of California, Berkeley, says guest-worker programs are simply too stiff to fit with the dynamic U.S. market, both inside and outside agriculture. "Our strength is that our economy is fluid," he says. "If we need labor all of a sudden in New Orleans, the workers just show...
...listen hard to the people who are working in the nation's schools every day. It's the only way to ensure that policies that sound great in Washington aren't leaving educational reality behind. [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] Early Report Card. The law demands that schools get better, but progress may be in the eye of the beholder...
...reauthorize the administration's classified domestic wiretapping program. Trouble is, Ashcroft was in the hospital suffering from acute pancreatitis, and Acting Attorney General Comey refused to sign, because he didn't think the program was legal. So someone, quite possibly Bush, sent Gonzales and chief of staff Andrew Card rushing to Ashcroft's bedside in search of his signature. Comey got wind of this, reached Ashcroft first, and Gonzales and Card left empty-handed. (Bush, of course, went ahead with the program anyhow - after revising it and getting Justice Department sign-off - but that's another story...