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...America are greater on average by far than they are in Iraq," he announced, citing dubious back-of-the-envelope estimates about the number of American homicides committed by people without citizenship. About an hour earlier, King had told the audience that Thompson was the only candidate who knew how to deal with those who had crossed the border illegally. "Fred Thompson says, 'You've got to send them back,'" King told the crowd of about 60, earning a hearty round of applause...
...executed in 1979 by the military dictatorship of General Zia ul Haq. She inherited her bearing and physical presence from her mother Nusrat Ispahan, from a distinguished Kurdish family from Iran. Educated at Radcliffe and Harvard, she would also study law at Oxford. Her family and close Western friends knew her as "Pinky...
...apart... instead of pulling us together, the lack of assimilation that's occurring among the people who are coming here. All these things that I felt were of major importance to the nation and I felt that no one else was addressing. So I entered the race. And I knew from day one that my chances were slim to none but the purpose was to advance a set of ideas and you know, really, I have to tell you I have achieved those goals and done so frankly to an extent that's beyond my greatest expectations...
Washington was also greeted after the event by Mildred Boutin Prothrow, a 1941 graduate of Wiley College. The 90-year-old woman, wearing her college colors, said she personally knew each of the film's protagonists. "They were pretty much the same in real life," she said...
...bringing the dollar back below $1 U.S. Today, the major Canadian banks predict commodity prices will fall more as the U.S. economy cools, landing the loonie somewhere around 95 U.S. cents at the end of 2008. But few predict a return to the low, low loonie levels that Canadians knew just one year ago, and that means the structural shift in Canada's economy - with growing differences between sectors and between geographic regions - seems set to continue. "It's almost like a tale of two economies," says Douglas Porter, deputy chief economist at BMO Capital Markets, "and I think that...