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Andrew Malcolm, an American son of Canadian immigrants, remembers with warmth his first visits to his parents' homeland. Canada in the 1940s and '50s, he says, was a quiet and rustic place, with "swarthy Indians living just down the dusty, curbless road, chickens clucking by an asparagus field, pictures of funny little crowns on mailboxes, stamps and road signs." Even then, he recalls, Canada was "very familiar, very friendly and very nice, but different...
...guests in their homeland, and I enjoyed being able to perform for them,” said Erica A. Scott ’06, president of the dance troupe...
...President Bush nominated Elizabeth's husband Philip Perry, 40, to the post of general counsel at the Homeland Security Department...
...even a lousy bag of pretzels on an airline flight these days. But the penny-pinching spirit had yet to arrive in 2002 at the Transportation Security Administration, the federal agency in charge of air security. A draft of an upcoming Inspector General's report from the Department of Homeland Security charges that the agency's sleek Transportation Systems Operation Center, which opened in the Washington suburbs in 2003, was plagued by mismanagement and overspending. The report charges that some of the $500,000 listed under "equipment and tools" was spent on silk plants and decorative artwork. And in addition...
...undocumented migrants detained in the U.S. in 2004. But Simcox, fed up with what he sees as government inaction in the face of lawlessness and a threat to national security, plans to do something about it. As head of a two-year-old group called the Civil Homeland Defense Corps, he is spearheading a new Minuteman Project that will place volunteers at quarter-mile intervals to watch a busy 50-mile stretch of border for the entire month of April. The goal, he says, is not to confront migrants but to monitor and report their locations to the U.S. Border...