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...Hillary Join the Club?" [March 20] stated that Senator Clinton is "known to misread a crowd sometimes" and claimed that at a Kennedy Center benefit for AIDS last fall, "she harangued an audience already deeply engaged with the epidemic with an awkward demand that they do even more." As the event's organizer, I can tell you that about half the audience of 500 was not in any way "engaged with the epidemic." They were invited to the event in an effort to get them involved. Clinton eloquently called on the corporate and government leaders in the room to work...
RELEASED. JILL CARROLL, 28, U.S. journalist abducted in January by Iraqi gunmen who threatened to kill her if their demand--that all female detainees in Iraq be freed--was not met; after 82 days in captivity; in Baghdad...
...historic lows, but employers have very limited options for bringing in low-skilled workers legally and no practical way to verify the legal status of their hires. Expand the channels for legal entry, make it practical for employers and workers to use them, penalize those who don't--and demand-driven illegal immigration will...
...Carroll's kidnappers, the Vengeance Brigade, a previously unknown group, released a tape of Carroll and made their first demand that female Iraqi prisoners be released or they would kill their captive by Jan. 20. On Jan. 26, the U.S. military released five women, but said it was a planned release and was unrelated to Carroll's plight. Four days later, another wrenching tape of Carroll appeared, in which she was weeping and wearing the Islamic headdress called a hijab. She called for the release of women prisoners...
...been rough in some ways, but at the same time, the U.N. is more in demand than ever. We have 85,000 people deployed in peacekeeping missions--the largest number of people deployed in the field in the U.N.'s entire history...