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...congressional inability to agree so far on immigration reform may reflect a collective judgment that the minuses of reform still outweigh the pluses. Kentucky Congressman Mazzoli argues that the wearying battle to change U.S. immigration law is "not urgent, except in the sense that it is more difficult to obtain reform as time goes on." A comment from former California Governor Jerry Brown is also worthy of consideration. Eventually, he guesses, some form of an additionally restrictive immigration law will be passed. Then he asks, "But will it make any difference...
Zuckerman Bound offers the convenience of all three novels in one volume and something else besides. Roth has added a novella-length epilogue to Nathan's saga called The Prague Orgy. For reasons he does not fully understand, a ( rejuvenated Zuckerman finds himself in Czechoslovakia, trying to obtain a manuscript of Yiddish stories, written by someone both unknown and deceased, to take back with him to the U.S. The writers and artists he meets in Prague have all been silenced and repressed by the government. Sex is their outlet and anodyne. Zuckerman wants to discuss literature; his hosts want...
...penalty, one of the toughest ever for embezzlement, is part of a federal crackdown on white-collar crime. Said Judge Thomas: "The fact that you used multiple frauds to obtain millions from your own banks warrants a sentence comparable to one that would be imposed on a person who uses violence to obtain a far smaller amount of money from one of your banks...
...court documents, John Walker began spying for the Soviets in 1968, when he was a communications watch officer for the commander of the Atlantic submarine fleet in Norfolk. The FBI said that Arthur became involved in 1980, when he passed along documents and photographs he was able to obtain with his "secret" security clearance. Michael, who helped out at his father's detective agencies before joining the Navy, has been involved in the family spy business at least since 1983, after he had finished boot camp and was assigned to the Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach. When Michael...
...government without extracting further concrete assurances about Pakistan's nuclear program. The official U.S. position remains that Pakistan does not have atomic weapons and has not assembled the nuclear explosives to make them. But a top U.S. official says that the Administration remains "concerned" about Pakistan's efforts to obtain weapons technology. Washington discounts Indian suspicions of Pakistan's nuclear intentions as part of the long-standing rivalry between those two countries. Says a State Department official: "If you just listen to the Indians, you'd come away with the impression that Pakistan has had the bomb for some years...