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...Premature Politicking Re "The Race Is On" [Feb. 5], about the early start to the U.S. presidential campaign: I am a U.S. citizen. I propose there be no campaigning until May 2008. The parties should hold primary elections in June and conventions in August and September, leaving September and October to campaign and debate. Ah, yes, and let's cap campaign spending. Stephen C. Schulte Hermée, Belgium...
...first case, decided Feb. 9, involves Shawqi Ahmad Omar, 45, a Jordanian who became a U.S. citizen in 1986. Omar came to the U.S. on a student visa in 1979. He married his American wife in 1983, then served in the Minnesota National Guard for about 11 months. In 1995 he moved to Jordan with his wife and their five children...
...judge didn't buy this argument, and neither did the three-judge panel to which the government appealed. Omar was a U.S. citizen, the panel decided, and no matter their label, the soldiers holding him worked for the Pentagon. Besides, Omar had never been charged or convicted, so there were no rulings of a non-American authority to trip over. The U.S. courts could hear the case...
...Premature Politicking Re "The race is on" [Feb. 5], about the early start to the U.S. presidential campaign: I am a U.S. citizen, and I propose that there be no campaigning until May 2008. The parties should hold their primary elections in June and their conventions in August and September, leaving September and October to finish campaigning and debating. Ah, yes, and let's cap campaign spending. Stephen C. Schulte Hermée, Belgium...
...Another way to make sure every citizen counts? Count them. Literally. Yet some countries don't collect ethnic data in their census and those that do are often behind the curve. Britain introduced a mixed-race category to its census in 2001, only to discover that it was already the country's fastest-growing ethnic minority group. It's illegal to collect data on ethnicity or religion in France, Belgium, Denmark, Italy and Spain, mainly on the grounds that identifying people by their race or faith is, in itself, a form of discrimination. But a move to make all people...