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...Summers said. “But I would suggest to you that issues of local disintegration—whether that means Flint, Michigan, whether that means failed states, whether that means struggling middle classes caught in binds everywhere—are of equal importance.” His mention of Flint was an allusion to the fact that General Motors laid off employees in that city during the 1980s and 1990s as the automaker shifted jobs overseas...
Penning books in the humor category seems fitting because Rich, as the statement takes care to mention, is the president of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
Harvard’s director of federal relations, Suzanne Day, said she thinks Bush may also mention the international initiatives launched by the State Department earlier this month to encourage international students to study in the United States. The announcement of the international initiatives seemed to be “a preview of the point he was going to make in the State of the Union,” Day said...
...much the same vein, senior administration official said that Bush will specifically mention the controversial National Security Agency eavesdropping program, reflecting his determination to make it a winning issue. Other aides said Bush will strike an optimstic, upbeat tone despite all the crises besetting him. The official said that in addition to a progress report on Iraq, Bush will discuss "other threats like Iran...
...country to reapply if they want to continue living in the U.S. Immigrant advocates oppose the idea, saying that a full amnesty giving permanent legal status is the only practical way to deal with the estimated 11 million illegal aliens in the U.S. without sending the economy, not to mention its poorest workers, into shock. But neither the President nor the amnesty crowd has a bill already rolling through Congress. That distinction belongs to House conservatives, who passed a hard-line border-security measure, stripped of any nod to guest-worker status, in December. The Senate will likely consider...