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...important, they should be balanced with the America’s need for an educated workforce. The new bill does just that, allocating 62 percent of green cards on the basis of family ties and 38 percent on the basis of skills. Though the exact formula may need some fine-tuning, we hope that the final product retains the greater emphasis on skill. That’s not to say the bill is perfect. We do not believe that further emphasis on border security will be productive. The economic, social, and political forces that draw immigrants...
...spending also blame lawmakers' indecisiveness and extravagance. "Anybody that's ever had work done on their home knows the greatest cost comes from changing the plans," says Steve Ellis, vice-president of Taxpayers for Common Sense. Thomas Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste, argues that tourists are just fine standing in lines outside the White House and the monuments. "Why Congress members thought they were so special to deserve this facility speaks to their attitude for spending in general," he says...
...resent the banquet of self-promotion and razzmatazz that is Cannes is to miss one big reason people, even critics, go to the movies. At this fabulous buffet, the films are the canapés. Are they tasty? Nutritious? Amid all of Cannes' other enticements-the good food, fine wines, gorgeous people-one is tempted to ask: Who cares? But the 12-day bash, which ends Sunday, has had some lovely tidbits-a wide range of art films with pizzazz, genre pieces with a high IQ and a few probing documentaries have made this Cannes, so far, a rewarding festival...
...Their marriage, already strained, now splits at the seams, and everything tumbles into catastrophe. This tragedy is played out in beautiful settings and photographed with a graceful assurance, as if the world were blooming while the couple's love withers. Their banishment, in this fine, supremely Russian film, could be from Eden...
...Which is fine with him. "If work is rich enough, then its meaning doesn't have to be tacked down to a one-liner," he says. "People can move into it in a lot of different ways." So to enter and circulate within the distorted bowl of his Torqued Ellipse IV is to find yourself inside a resolutely abstract geometric volume that is also somehow a womb, a crater, an inlet and a chamber. By its powerful address to both the body and the subconscious, it sets in motion some very deep mental reflexes, including the ones having...