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...have returned off and on during the fall. It suggested some earlier American self-image, a kind of innocence arising from vulnerability and loss: post-traumatic sweetness. (The trauma in Capra's case, of course, was the stock-market crash and the Great Depression.) Had we renewed our citizenship, for a little while, in Frank Capra's America...
Also on the agenda for next year: a proposal, backed by some influential lawmakers, to split the INS into two agencies--a good cop that would tend to service functions like processing citizenship papers and a bad cop that would concentrate on border inspections, deportation and other functions. One reason for the division, supporters say, is that the INS has in recent years become too focused on serving tourists and immigrants. After this year's tragedy, they say, the INS should pay more attention to serving a different population: the millions of ordinary Americans who rely on the nation...
...Walker be hauled in front of a military tribunal, because President Bush decreed that they try only noncitizens. Courts generally regard citizenship as a right that can be relinquished but not taken away. That means Walker's case would have to go to federal court, but nowhere in the statute books does there seem to be a law that precisely fits the crime he may have committed. He might be tried for seditious conspiracy, except that the law against it specifically applies to actions that happen within U.S. jurisdiction...
...immigration charges. The day after eight former high-ranking FBI officials attacked the effectiveness of the program in a front-page Washington Post article, the Justice Department moved to sweeten the pot. It announced the "Responsible Cooperators Program," which offers fast-track naturalization and, ultimately, the possibility of citizenship to foreigners, including illegal immigrants, who provide information that leads to the apprehension of terrorists...
With the graduation of Honorable Mention All-Ivy selection Buth, the first place to look is to co-captains Boyd and Osmanovic, who recently gained his American citizenship. Boyd, while a four-year starter and an assist machine, is shaky at best as a scorer. Kissling’s decision to focus on academics his senior year deprives Dartmouth of another potential threat...