Word: enterances
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Praising new immigrants for "energizing our culture" and "building up our economy," he said that they "must be part of our one America." "We have a responsibility to make them welcome here," Clinton explained, "and they have a responsibility to enter the mainstream of American life. That means learning English and learning about our democratic system of government." He then asked Congress to support his budget that earmarked funds to help immigrants to meet this "responsibility...
Second, Clinton's belief that immigrants can enter mainstream American life by learning English and studying America's "democratic" government is naive...
...history of African Americans in this country provides one counter-example: blacks have been in this country, learning English, for three and a half centuries. Still, this attempt to "enter the mainstream of American life" did not stop slavery or Jim Crow laws...
Hilary and Jackie certainly suggests that the multiple sclerosis that struck down its heroine so young and imposed on her 14 years of anguish before she died was such a price. And since that end is known to us before we enter the theater, it becomes, in some measure, a justification for her sister's comparatively modest sacrifice. What's a little spouse-sharing if it can bring a few minutes--oh, all right, 16 months--of happiness to a tormented, foredoomed soul...
Lisa Graham Keegan, who has just begun her second term as Arizona's superintendent of public instruction, decided to enter politics when she was watching the impeachment and ouster of Governor Evan Mecham. After she became education chief, in 1995, Keegan battled with Governor--and soon to be convicted felon--Fife Symington. When she suggested that he resign, a Symington crony said she was having "a bad hair day." Last week Keegan joined Governor Jane Hull, secretary of state Betsey Bayless, treasurer Carol Springer and attorney general Janet Napolitano (the lone Democrat) in the nation's first all-female state...