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...support of the DREAM Act or the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act. The legislation was first introduced in Congress in March 2009, and seeks to allow illegal immigrants who are high school graduates to apply for conditional permanent residency in order to pursue higher education or join the military...
However, members have mixed reasons for joining CMi. According to Jirapinyo, only half of members appear headed in a financial track. ““Most people who join are interested in social enterprise. After graduating from CMi, many of our members go into microfinance and other social enterprises. The rest might assume more traditional career paths, including consulting and finance,” said Jirapinyo...
...eventually returned to Yemen, where his humor, charisma and technological savvy helped him develop a global reputation as an intellectual blood bank for aspiring martyrs. The Fort Dix Six are said to have listened to his sermons, as are some of the Minneapolis youths who traveled to Somalia to join the al-Shabab terrorist group. And last December and January, surveillance of al-Awlaki revealed that he had received as many as 20 e-mails from Hasan...
...weeks ago, Sen. Joseph Lieberman used the lives of thousands of Americans as a bargaining chip. Of course, he did not phrase it that way. Instead, he threatened to join a Republican filibuster of any health-care reform bill that includes the choice of a government-run insurance plan, or “public option.” This could very well destroy the reform process entirely. Given that even Sen. Olympia Snowe, the most liberal Senate Republican, will likely filibuster such a bill as well, such a vote would defeat the proposal in the Senate...
Managing editor Wang Shuo also said he was leaving the magazine. Staffers were told on Monday that they had until Wednesday to decide whether they wanted to leave to join Caixin, which will be a weekly magazine. The extent of the exodus of Caijing staffers is unclear, although people close to the magazine indicate a strong support for Hu's move and confidence that the new venture would be built on the independent model of the old one. "We were told that we will be doing the same thing, just with a different name and a different office," says...