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...precisely the preservation of the American dream. In their pamphlets and petitions, they call on the Congress to separate the issues of legal and illegal immigration for the purposes of saving legal immigration. This is a practical aim and should be pursued by politicians interested in ideas more than lip service. The students label Simpson's proposal S. 1394 and his House-cohort Representative Lamar Smith's H.R. 2202 as "outrageous." They might better be termed "un-American." In this way, students could more ably fight a patriotic battle for the immigrant soul of this country...
...staff members, they dump glitter on him--Diana allegedly made so odious a remark to Tiggy that the nanny's lawyer sent warnings to the press not to repeat it, and the Queen had to be assured that the remark was untrue. Possibly as a result of her lip, Diana's long-term private secretary resigned, followed by his assistant and the chauffeur. Meanwhile, a Church of Scotland minister announced that Diana's father Earl Spencer told him as a young man that he had dated Princess Elizabeth before she became QEII. And the Queen's other daughter...
...Vice President too was a designated tough guy, to help give Clinton some cover. He heckled the enemy, repeatedly interrupting Gingrich during his presentation of Medicare options. At one point, Gingrich had to bite his lip when Gore cut in with the warning that "we can't frighten senior citizens. We must all guard against that." Gingrich, who had watched the Democrats spend millions of dollars last year attacking "Republican cuts" in Medicare, said nothing, having been counseled to stay calm at such moments. Gore remained feisty, however--so much so that rumors began circulating that he was throwing bones...
...last, a reason for Modern Maturity readers to watch mtv. In the video for Don Henley's newest song, The Garden of Allah, Kirk Douglas plays Satan. The 79-year-old actor, who agreed to take the role after consulting his rabbi, has no lines but lip-synchs quite convincingly--no mean feat for a man who's almost deaf...
...obscura--a box with a lens that captures the image of a scene on ground glass. It may be that the circles of confusion--the luminous spots caused by imperfections of the lens--gave him the idea for his poignant highlights, the liquid white dots that sparkle off eyeball, lip or chair and give them such a dewy appearance, as though rendered with an airbrush...