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...back on the plane and say, 'Adios, I'm going to college,'" says Gregory. The pair clicked on the ice, started dating after about two weeks and were married in five months. Skeptics chirped that Gregory pulled a classic "Rent-a-Russian" - marry Petukhov so he can gain U.S. citizenship and qualify for the team. Gregory's response: "After we go to the Olympics and there's no divorce, then they'll start to come around and say, 'Oh, well, maybe we were wrong.'" Whether teammates break bread, share a bed or see red, all Olympic pairs must be their...
...back on the plane and say, 'Adios, I'm going to college,'" says Gregory. The pair clicked on the ice, started dating after about two weeks and were married in five months. Skeptics chirped that Gregory pulled a classic "Rent-a-Russian"--marry Petukhov so he can gain U.S. citizenship and qualify for the team. Gregory's response: "After we go to the Olympics and there's no divorce, then they'll start to come around and say, 'Oh, well, maybe we were wrong...
...think illegal immigrants should be able to earn citizenship...
...Democracy requires the exact opposite. It demands that people take charge of their lives and make informed decisions. That takes time, the careful accumulation of the habits of citizenship. Bush's "gift" formulation sends exactly the wrong message; it leads people to believe that all they need is a purple finger and life will get better. The President seems a victim of that same delusion: he seems to believe that we can get away with promoting democracy through glorious rhetoric without doing the slow, expensive, heavy lifting of nation building. It is easy to talk about the need for decent...
...Bush Commerce Department initially said its restrictions would be based on scholars’ country of origin. But one administration official’s comments last week suggested that the restrictions would instead be based on country of citizenship, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education...