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...Iraq war plan in the United Nations Security Council. Mexicans, whose foreign-policy attitudes are staunchly noninterventionist, applauded Fox - but Bush took it as a betrayal and virtually blacklisted the Mexican leader. But Bush faces a re-election campaign this year, and a larger swath of the traditionally Democratic Latino vote could be decisive in several closely contested states. Though Bush aides deny that political motive, Fox is Bush's amigo again - and in Bush's immigration-reform speech last week, Fox's ideas were suddenly "good" for U.S. border security. "We never stopped being friends," Fox insists...
When affirmative action was banned in the state of California in 1996, the number of black and Latino students admitted to Boalt Hall fell sharply...
...traditional mobilization of labor unions. On the same day that Republicans were rolling to victory in the South, Democratic Mayor John Street was overwhelmingly re-elected in Philadelphia, in part because of the 86,000 new registrations that Democrats say they gathered in the city's African-American and Latino neighborhoods. "The Republicans are not really expanding their base; they're turning out their base," says Democratic organizer Steve Rosenthal, whose new group, Partnership for America's Families, helped run the voter-registration operation and has other pilot projects under way in Cleveland, Ohio, and St. Louis, Mo. "The base...
Aside from a few new tailgates—including a tailgate sponsored by Latino groups that featured a roasted pig—students agreed that the biggest difference from last year’s cold and muddy game day was the beautiful weather in New Haven...
Still, this is no Starbucks-swilling, Chomsky-quoting bedroom community, like some university towns I could name. It’s a working-class city, roughly equal parts white, black and Latino, with brash politics and a kinetic union movement (much to Yale’s discomfiture). The city is small enough that Yale students play an active role—symbolized by Ward 1 of the Board of Aldermen, the equivalent of the city council, which is comprised almost entirely of undergraduate dorms. Earlier this month, incumbent Alderman Ben Healey, a Yale senior, defeated fellow senior Dan Kruger...