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Despite the uncertainty, Wiggins ended on an upbeat note...
...economy, Joe Biden launched like a mad bus driver into a breathless verbal tour of his hometown, beginning with Union Street and a mom-and-pop restaurant, accelerating through all the stops—the current administration, taxes, Iraq, education, health care—taking a slight detour to note his (working-class, blue-collar) predilection for Home Depot, and wheezing back into the station with a promise of change from Obama. To viewers at home, Biden’s brief but intimate portrait seemed to say much more than any dense policy proposal...
...slow descent into the Looking Glass land that hurricanes create begins just south of Houston along Interstate Highway 45, the road to Galveston Island. The first odd note is the number of blown out billboards and signs. The gold has gone from the Golden Arches, the toll-free phone number on the billboard for the class action law firm has been torn and tossed to the wind. Then the blue tarps begin to appear, stretched taut over the rooftops of strip malls and apartment buildings...
...note, though, that “influence is of course often inspired in places far from the ivory tower...
...might see piecemeal reform, though, before comprehensive reform. Unfortunately, if we had had a more credible president in office in the last few years, we might have seen something comprehensive go through. Immigration reform, in this sense, is a casualty of the Iraq War.” Many fellows noted that they reached new levels of understanding regarding their use of language in relation to immigration and how the public receives such language, as well as a greater understanding of the issues of immigration and how they relate to society. “Talking about language, about the issues...