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...sure, there is intensity on the other side of the immigration debate, as the pro-immigration rallies in April showed. But those may have little impact on the 2006 congressional elections. The rallies were in cities like Los Angeles that are already represented by pro-immigrant, Democratic Congressmen. Most of the districts Republicans have to win in are places like Columbus, Ohio, and Westport, Connecticut - suburban areas without huge Hispanic voting-populations. And while Latinos are growing as a politically influential voting block, they still only account for 6% of the voting population...
...courtship. Unlike talking on the phone, texting provides an emotional screen that hides shyness and awkwardness; it also buys time for the less acute to compose seemingly effortless repartee. "It's emboldened teenagers," says Australian Research Council fellow Gerard Goggin, who's just finished a book about the cultural impact of mobile phones...
...summer, Gore plans to begin a training program in Nashville, Tenn., that will enable 1,000 activists "to give my slide show in their voices," with a limited-use license to remix its music and images. But the best measure of the potential impact of the Gore film may be the fact that there's already an oil-industry-financed ad campaign to discredit...
...need to get into the several billions of dollars. The [black banking] sector should be consolidated into one bank. Then you'd have an institution that would really have a serious impact, produce high returns for its shareholders and fundamentally change black America. You talk about the turnaround of a company. We're trying to turn around a whole race...
...Center’s Working Paper Series and increase its visibility on the web. She also sees areas such as sociology and anthropology as underrepresented and aims to institutionalize better connections with the law school. Although she joined the government department only in 2003, Simmons has already made an impact. “In the few years she’s really become a mainstay colleague in the department,” said Chair of the Government Department Nancy L. Rosenblum ’69. “There’s no one who doesn’t think...