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...bigotry of immigration opponents is a familiar shadow in our civic myth, like the devils and tempters in a medieval morality play. In 1798 John Adams signed the Alien Act, which gave the President the power to expel "dangerous" foreigners. Harrison Gray Otis, an Adams supporter in Congress, singled out "hordes of wild Irishmen" as particularly unwelcome. Other Congressmen mocked the French accent of Representative Albert Gallatin, who was born in Geneva, Switzerland. Adams was rewarded for his harshness on this issue and others by losing the election of 1800 to Thomas Jefferson, who understood Gallatin well enough to make...
...president, what would you do to help combat poverty? -Brandon Harrison, Los AngelesI would move for an elimination of the tax code, to move from an income tax to a consumption tax. If we could do that, you would see an explosion of job opportunities and economic growth that would probably be unmatched in this nation's history...
...photo session with a model of the command module resting on a table in front of them it. In one of the outtakes never released to the press, they dropped the grins, bowed their heads and brought their hands together prayerfully. They inscribed the picture to Harrison Storms, the head of North American Aviation, the spacecraft's lead contractor: "Stormy," the inscription read, "this time we are not calling Houston...
...animated movie, Surf's Up. He'll also be the human star as robots wage war on Earth in the oversize action flick Transformers. But next year it's the really big leagues: he has just been tapped to play a key role in Indiana Jones 4 alongside Harrison Ford. Oh, and soon he'll turn 21 and be old enough to share a toast at all those premieres...
...Award in Monster's Ball. Perfect Stranger represents the nadir in this line of thinking. She's Rowena Price, a hard-charging investigative reporter, whose main line of work seems to be catching prominent males in sexually compromised activity. Her putative victim is a high-profile ad man named Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis) who may or may not have murdered her best childhood friend. Her modus operandi is to assume a couple of false identities - among them an Internet chatroom tease. She is also plagued by bad dreams hinting that she was a sexually abused child...