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Welch said he did not know whether his bill would pass next year, and cited the strength of the “higher education lobby?? as a potential stumbling block...
...passage of the deal is another case where a powerful ethnic lobby??perhaps along with some romantic notions about supporting the world’s most populous democracy—caused yet another foreign policy blunder. Since the Bush administration first negotiated the agreement in 2005, the Indian-American community has organized heavily in order to guarantee its passage. As The New York Times reported in 2006, “Indian-Americans, as well as the Indian government in some cases, have invested heavily in proven political tools that have helped previous immigrant groups break into American politics?...
...some improvements. “I don’t understand why I can’t electronically submit my applications,” Kwong says. “Everything is electronic but they make us print it out.” ‘PROSTITUTES IN THE LOBBY??Even after scoring some cash for his thesis research—a total of $7,000 from three different institutions—Kwong found that the process didn’t get any easier. “You don’t really know how much you?...
...difficult to talk about the [Israel] lobby??s influence on American foreign policy,” note the authors of “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” “without being accused of anti-Semitism or labeled a self-hating Jew.” For the two authors—University of Chicago political science professor John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, former academic dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government—whose new book discusses that lobby, this statement clearly reflects personal experience.When the pair...
...D.A.N.C.E.” was omnipresent in America at the time of my departure. This was the land of baguettes and Bizet, and I, a professed Francophile, was gagging down processed pastry and watching similarly packaged English-language videos by Kelly Rowland and Nelly Furtado on the lobby??s television. C’est affreux, n’est-ce pas?Hours later, I was asking a French friend about Justice, and I got a blank stare. Hadn’t heard of them. “Oops!... I Did It Again,” he opined...