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...It’s one thing to say abstractly that we favor nuclear or windmills, but it’s another thing to support it anywhere near you,” Rowe said. “We can’t afford this ‘not-in-my-backyard’ syndrome that Americans have been accustomed to.” —Staff writer Natasha S. Whitney can be reached at nwhitney@fas.harvard.edu. CLARIFICATION
...criminal issue. The day was divided into three parts: Immigration and the Economy, Immigration and the Law, and Immigration and the Assimilation of the Second Generation. “It doesn’t seem like there will be a comprehensive piece of legislation [on immigration] in the near future,” said Cristina Rodriguez of the NYU School of Law. “There is too much to be dealt with in Congress right now. We might see piecemeal reform, though, before comprehensive reform. Unfortunately, if we had had a more credible president in office in the last...
...When I was an undergraduate Near Eastern Studies was a wonderful concentration [and] I also took a constitutional law class which was one of my most exciting classes,” Feldman said. “Since there were overlapping ideas I thought it was interesting to pursue in tandem. I was studying it because I loved it, I had no idea it would work in real world...
...engine that's going to give us the economic growth and competitiveness we need," Biden said. Sarah Palin, for her part, called for state standards to be raised as well as funding. The Republican vice-presidential nominee also decried the lack of attention education has received, adding, "It's near and dear to my heart...
...Though we'd all like to see Iran's political structure far more open, free, and pluralistic, even its fiercest opponents won't accuse Iran of being unstable and chaotic," Billion notes. "Now compare that to our ally Pakistan, whose construction of a nuclear bomb didn't provoke anywhere near the alarm. Or at least didn't back then...