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Even racial advocacy groups such as the National Council of La Raza and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People testified before Congress that a new multiracial category on the census would be detrimental to government programs that target minorities...
...letter to his associates, Fineberg said, "I will miss joining many of you in the holiday festivities that mark this time of year. My thoughts and best wishes are with you now, and I look forward to being back with you in the New Year...
...like Ken Griffey Jr. to stay in Seattle. Not enough baseball players spend their careers in the same place. I mean, Roger Clemens will probably be in the Hall of Fame in a New York Yankees cap. How'd that happen...
Unfortunately, the extreme nationalists carried the day with their hateful rhetoric and destructive politics, and unleashed the ethnic violence which so horrified the world in Bosnia and still bleeds today in Kosovo. Tudjman deserves respect as a head of state, and for his role in creating a new country, no mean feat under any circumstances. But he does share with many others a great responsibility for the conflagration that shattered so many millions of lives in the former Yugoslavia, and it is entirely comprehensible that the West viewed his passing with reservations...
Obviously the margin of Fentrice Driskell and John Burton's election makes the situation difficult. A new election is out of the question and would only waste time and result in low participation...