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Senate negotiators, eager to rejuvenate the immigration-reform proposal that stalled before their Easter break, agreed last week on a bill that would create guest-worker programs--Bush aides say the President will veto any reform that lacks such initiatives--and introduce steps to crack down on illegal hiring that could affect all Americans. The bill, to be debated this week, authorizes 1,000 new customs officials to focus on investigating forged documentation and toughens rules on what identification must be presented to potential employers. U.S. citizens would have to show a passport or a controversial new-format driver...
...February, they sang a wonderful rendition of Mozart’s lesser-known opera “Idomeneo.” If the prospect of an extraordinary performance of a fantastic piece does not excite you quite enough, don’t take my word for it; in his Easter Sunday greetings, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church Peter J. Gomes took several minutes to recommend the performance to hundreds of churchgoers. If it’s worthy of a Sunday announcement, it’s certainly worthy of attendance. —Staff...
...going to be better,” she says. The seven clusters of gray concrete that compose Charlesview Apartments contrast sharply with the white finish of its neo-Georgian neighbor, Harvard Business School (HBS). The stairwells smell like rotting metal and the concrete steps are worn. American flags and Easter baskets adorn the scratched red and blue doors. Bicycles and television buzz overflow into the landings. Inside the apartments there is wall-to-wall carpeting, a couch, a television. Some contain two stories and many open onto private decks. In 1995, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development...
...Fiery Furnaces “Bitter Tea” (Fat Possum) 4 Stars The press packet issued with “Bitter Tea,” the new album from art-rock sibling duo The Fiery Furnaces, contained a delightful little Easter egg: the transcript of an email written by Matthew Friedberger, the band’s lyricist and instrumentalist, to their publicist. The email contains the most pretentious bit of prose ever committed to the page (or monitor). Since no summary of mine could capture the unmitigated pompousness of the offending passage, I quote it for you here...
Since I threw this past Saturday, on this particular Sunday morning (Easter Sunday), I had my one-on-one lift, immediately followed by fourteen full poles—basically a sprint from one foul pole to the other along the outfield’s warning track...