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...Nowhere does Niall Ferguson inform readers that under the Clinton Administration, the Internal Revenue Service began giving out Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers to assist illegal aliens in paying taxes, which also enabled them to take out home loans. Previously, a valid U.S. Social Security number was required to purchase a home, thereby excluding illegal immigrants from qualifying for such loans. Every media feature on the bursting of the housing bubble describes decimated neighborhoods in Florida, Arizona and California - all areas with large populations of illegal aliens - but no one tells us about the government's change in regulations that...
...Such complexities, however, are easily lost in the rapid-fire sound-bite contest that has predictably come to consume the presidential election. We are left instead with emotionally charged claims that mislead as much as they inform...
...that ended Sudan's 21-year civil war. According to the CPA, neither North nor South Sudan is allowed to rearm in the period before a 2011 referendum is held on South Sudanese independence - unless they have express permission from a Joint Defense Board, which is then obligated to inform the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Sudan. A spokesman for the U.N. Mission in Sudan tells TIME that the mission has received no such information about the tanks...
...stood outside Flo's apartment building in Miami for about 30 minutes while we gathered six members of the posse. Then we waited an hour for them to make calls to inform even more members of the posse about where to meet our part of the posse and to communicate the details of all this to Flo. Logistics, I would discover over the next 10 hours of endless greeting-and-leaving discussions, are the worst part of entourage life: it's like constantly trying to leave and arrive at a Jewish wedding...
...Shouting is a good way to foment conflict, but it's not the best way to inform." - explaining, in 1999, why she preferred PBS's understated news delivery to that of pundit-heavy network television...