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...American citizenship is not a human right. The U.S. does not have an obligation to systematically clothe, feed, and protect the citizens of other countries. (We may do so, but it is not an obligation.) What’s at stake here is civil and political rights, not economic and social rights. And civil rights presume citizenship. Its benefits—economic and social rights—cannot be systematically dispensed to those without it. The protesters, therefore, should have supported citizenship, not a citizen-less, stateless, world...
...Nosal said. Reserve Officers’ Training Corps member and panelist Peter H. Brooks ’06 said that for him the event was about fostering a greater understanding of the military for both Harvard students and the wider community. “There is a huge civil-military divide,” he said. “Especially here at Harvard, as future leaders of our country, it would seem as though they should have some sort of familiarity with the military.” Panelist John H. Silva, a graduate student at the Kennedy School of Government...
...home-made desk of the local eccentric after he died. This first in a multi-volume series (aren't they all?), introduces a sui generis world of oddballs who live on a mysterious island, presumably somewhere off the Atlantic coast of the U.S., sometime prior to the Civil War. The premise of the first book has Bertha Snodgrass, the grade-school-age daughter of the island's governor, deciding to buy a slave on the mainland and bring him back to do her chores. You can't fault Grady for a lack of daring. But the book's bizarre conflation...
...been on the sidelines to begin working for some compromise that would both tighten borders and give some hope for illegal workers who are already in the United States. But a quick survey of Capitol Hill Monday showed that the new round of events, coordinated by unions and civil-rights groups on behalf of illegal immigrants, may be counterproductive...
...Chief Spoiler In 2005, as an elected Iraqi government struggles to maintain stability, al-Zarqawi intensifies his bombing campaign, focusing on Shi?ite targets, with a view to starting a civil...