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CONSIDERING THAT THE President just signed a bill that contains generous amnesty provisions, it seems entirely innappropriate to crack down on H-1 immigrants. It is safe to assume that Congress did not intend to create a strange and unfair dichotomy between illegal and legal aliens and merely overlooked this provision. Such mistakes do happen...
...whose fortune has been estimated at upwards of a billion dollars, took over the job of rebuilding the 33,000-sq.-ft. rink, did Wollman show signs of being completed in time for the 1986-87 skating season. Trump offered Mayor Edward Koch a deal: let him have a crack at the job, and if the city was not satisfied with his work, it wouldn't pay him. "Basically the city didn't know how to build a skating rink, and I felt we could do the job," said Trump. "I told them I'll pick...
...president is moving cautiously. "I'm really going for continuity," says Stringer. "What the news division needs is less management, not more." He is expected, however, to be a strong advocate for more prime-time documentaries. Since September CBS has aired two prime-time news specials (on crack and AIDS), and Stringer promises others. "There is an appetite for them in the news division and the corporation...
...Though he lost his bid for the Senate two years ago, former U.S. Representative Jim Shannon was a fine three-term congressman who plans to crack down to enforce strictly nuclear power regulations and to increase consumer protection as state attorney general...
...There was the crack of a single rifle shot fired from the wood and the bald man who was holding me took the bullet right through his face. It was a horrible sight. His head seemed to splash open and little soft bits of grey stuff flew out in all directions." Younger readers may be astonished that this graphic recollection comes from the author of durable children's books like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Admirers of Roald Dahl's "grownup" ^ stories (Kiss Kiss, Switch Bitch) should not be surprised. The passage, which appears in the second installment of Dahl...