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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Morales' reticence is not surprising. In December, the U.S. cut military aid by 25% - from $45 million to $33 million - just days after he announced his desire to increase the legal quote of coca grown in Bolivia. It was a clear warning that divergence from set eradication goals jeopardizes tens of millions of dollars in aid and trade preferences the U.S. gives Bolivia...
...grown accustomed to an undercurrent in public policy debates that blames black women for an array of social and cultural failures. Without making distinctions, that racist sentiment casts us all as lazy and drug-addled welfare queens, thoughtless breeders of criminals, and unwed heathens who are sacking the sacred institution of marriage. The obverse, of course, is the black woman who presumes to move into the American mainstream. That woman is not successful. She is uppity...
...Joel Stein's "The Hungry American" [April 9]: I doubt that the Filipino Jollibee franchises in the U.S. are really meant to cater to the American palate. They are simply a response to Filipinos in the U.S. who have grown tired of eating bland burgers and fried chicken in American fast-food restaurants. The Yumburger and Chickenjoy are made to suit Filipinos' taste buds. These mimeographed restaurants you referred to actually have something better-tasting to offer. And if the hungry American likes it too, then I've proved my point...
...Immigrant-rights advocates insist that giving newcomers a voice in local government integrates them quickly into their communities--and encourages them to become citizens. Opponents say that's backward: voting means little to an immigrant who hasn't earned citizenship. It's a divisive debate, and in a nation grown chilly toward immigrants, supporters of noncitizen voting have a tough case to make...
...probably won't learn the answer to that question during this campaign. Diplomacy may be subtle, but politics ain't, and in that arena, Giuliani's creative incivility is likely to be a major advantage--not just in the Republican Party primaries. This is a nation that has grown tired of having to figure out the difference between Sunnis and Shi'ites, impatient with our disastrous involvements overseas. It's a terrifying thought, but fuhgeddaboutit! may be the foreign policy most Americans want...