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...Mexican heritage or pass it on to my children. I will not be de-humanized by being required to deal with my government in English. The current bill requires only one very simple way for immigrants and their descendants to respect the country they have freely chosen to inhabit: to learn the common language of its citizens. Immigrants owe this and much more to the United States. My father realized this. So do I. So should Mr. Melikian. --Thomas Flores...
...having laughed at something weighty by poking fun at the problems of class in Austen's England. In choosing his material, McGrath obviously revels in mocking the characters' indulgences, and nowhere does he have more of a field day than with the picture-book world he believes the characters inhabit: endlessly decorated lawns, trees, countrysides, even the people themselves. Characters seem absurd just walking by such a background...
...time convince ourselves that the decision process lies independent of an individual's moral conception. The notion of ethics is rooted in an individual's ability to have his actions and decisions reflect his moral standing. And clearly, if we are to have a capable president, one fit to inhabit the most respected office in the United States, in the world, we cannot delude ourselves into thinking that because he may stand for my belief, he won't amorally sacrifice that belief in the name of political gain...
...many pop songs inhabit emotional extremes--the juice of ecstasy, the razor on the wrist of despair--that someone writing about the middle ground most of us occupy most of the time can sound like a pioneer of the everyday. Peters extracts muted poetry from lives that might seem either prosaic, like taxi drivers (A Room with a View) and people locked in a traffic jam (Waiting for the Light to Turn Green), or dangerous (Circus Girl). Carmelita, in Border Town, leaves her own baby at home "to love somebody else's child" as a nanny: "She keeps her distance...
...float around for a relaxing ride on Boston's famous Swan Boats which inhabit the landscaped ponds of the French-inspired Public Garden next to the English-style Common...