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...current voting proposals so that politicians would be more responsive to noncitizens' concerns. The proposals are narrower than past ones. New York City's bill, for example, would apply to some 1.3 million people who have been in the U.S. legally for at least six months on a green card or long-term visa...
...credit, Imus never played the "I'm sick" card. Perhaps he felt confident because he had been legitimized by his high-profile guests. Imus could have made a remark just as bad years ago and suffered few if any consequences. Scratch that: Imus did make remarks as bad or worse for years. Speaking about Gwen Ifill, the African-American PBS anchor who was then White House correspondent for the New York Times, he said, "Isn't the Times wonderful? It lets the cleaning lady cover the White House." He called a Washington Post writer a "boner-nosed, beanie-wearing Jewboy...
...students, even if they are not currently enrolled, still have access to the libraries with a valid Harvard ID, according to spokeswoman Linda A. Cross. And the Lowell dining hall, one of Godelia’s favorite haunts, can be entered during the day without swiping an undergraduate ID card...
...team with a frustrating sixth-place finish for the weekend. After Day 1, sophomore Michael Shore led all scorers with a two-under par 68, thanks to two front-nine birdies. Though Shore was the only player in the field to break 70, freshmen Danny Mayer and Greg Shuman carded 72 and 73, respectively, to finish in the top 10 in the individual standings. Freshman Peter Singh and Senior Tom Hegge shot 81 and 83, respectively, as the team combined to score ten birdies in Round 1. On Day 2, the golf gods retracted any favors they extended...
...both "features" of Grindhouse, the MISSING REEL card flashes as a sex scene has just begun. That's a comment on the old days, but it also proves that when it comes to eroticism, of the true or even exploitation variety, these directors are such cowards. If they use sex at all, it is in the horror-film mode pioneered by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Show a woman in a shower, then kill her. The impulse is both prurient and puritanical; they provide a brief voyeuristic pleasure, then feel obliged to punish the women, and the audience, and themselves...