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...sessions of Congress. "The Federal Government hasn't shown much interest in sending [illegal immigrants] home," says Sue Storm, sponsor of the Kansas bill. "It's in all our best interests for them to be educated." Opponents don't buy that brand of pragmatism. "It's so politically correct to say, 'Oh, these poor people have dreams!' Well, we all have dreams," says Lorrie Hall, founder of the Massachusetts Coalition for Immigration Reform. "They are taking places from Americans--and we have to subsidize them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Gets the Break? | 7/3/2005 | See Source »

...know how to cook coq au vin"? If this is correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hello, May I Speak with a Human? | 7/3/2005 | See Source »

...trek to the airport on public transportation: take the Red Line inbound from Harvard, switch to the Green Line eastbound at Park Street, switch to the Blue Line outbound at Government Center, ride that train to the Airport stop, and then take a free shuttle bus to the correct terminal...

Author: By Brendan R. Linn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Silver Line Eases Travel to Logan | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

...Americans cannot read well enough to perform the simplest tasks. Of 15,000 tested, 20% could not write a check without an error so serious that a bank could not cash it; 22% were unable to address an envelope well enough to ensure postal delivery; 40% could not figure correct change from a store purchase; and more than half had at least some trouble with reading or writing. "We're talking about half the U.S. population being in a borderline or worse situation," says Texas Researcher Jim Cates, who directed the study. "There is no threat to the U.S. greater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Losing the War of Letters | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...suitably outrageous part for John Cleese, the madcap star of Monty Python's Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers, two of the most popular British comedy series ever to appear on American public TV. In a film called The Unorganised Manager, St. Peter returns an executive to earth to correct his "eleven deadly organizational sins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monty Python in the Boardroom | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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