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...Army will gain in its strength in human capital, and the immigrants will gain their citizenship.' LIEUT. GENERAL BENJAMIN FREAKLEY, the U.S. Army's top recruitment officer, on allowing immigrants with temporary visas to enlist...
...anyone be surprised that it happened this way? It’s not every day that circumstances allow you to co-opt your opposition. The New Deal and the Great Society were not bipartisan initiatives. Look at it from the Republicans’ point of view. What do they gain from bipartisanship? If Obama successfully builds bipartisan support for his agenda, who gets the credit? John Boehner and Mitch McConnell...
...origin of these further conventions, so we couldn’t actually keep complete fidelity to the sensibility.6.FM: It seems that you’re hoping it will be kind of a gateway drug into these 18th-century novels. What would you hope that a reader would gain just by reading it? JL: I do wish that it brought people to read more 18th-century fiction and historical materials. The book is supposed to sort of make the reader the historian... it is totally didactic in that sense, not as a “gateway drug” to 18th...
...name of the individual has not yet been released. Initial attempts to ascertain the body’s age, race, and gender proved fruitless because of its advanced state of decomposition, according to Wark, but the body was ultimately identified through dental records. An autopsy was performed yesterday to gain more information, including the cause of death. The district attorney’s office suspects no foul play at this time, as the individual had a history of mental illness. “The deceased had tried to commit suicide in a similar manner before,” Wark said...
...former lunch pals know that there is an upside in getting along. Murdoch, whose net worth Forbes tallies at $8.3 billion, has only to gain by patching up his relationship with the sitting Prime Minister of the country that is host to his fourth largest holding. Berlusconi, who comes in at $9.4 billion on the Forbes list, owns Endemol, producers of global variety and reality television programs, which sometimes run on Murdoch networks. (Read a TIME cover story on Reality...