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...supporting dissidents and imposing political sanctions. Blairites are big fans of foreign aid. But according to a 2005 Security and Peace Institute study, only 38% of Democrats said the U.S. can afford it. (The Republican number was 20 points higher). Almost two-thirds of Democrats (compared with less than one-third of Republicans) told CBS in December, "The United States should mind its own business internationally and let other countries get along as best they can." That's about as direct a refutation of the Blairite creed...
Before congratulating the system too much, consider another group of students. In that same survey (which I distributed as part of my thesis research), in an optional open-ended final question, nearly one-third of respondents mentioned that they needed a mental health resource but did not even try to use one because of its negative reputation...
...everyone else—including thousands of college seniors across the country who have yet to complete their graduation requirements—will be sent home to reapply next year.This is a misguided policy because high-skill immigrants and guest workers contribute tremendously to our economy. For instance, one-third of Microsoft’s domestic employees are foreigners. And a 2004 study revealed that more American-born Intel Science finalists had parents who came to America on an H-1B visa than had domestically-born parents. Congress must recognize that the halo effect around these talented, innovative workers benefits...
...sound like a large number, but it is for an endangered species whose population was down to a mere 22 in the 1980s and now, after two decades of capturing and breeding, still only hovers at 279 individual birds. According to a recent U.C.-Santa Cruz study, about one-third of 18 tested birds - easy victims because they are strictly scavengers and therefore chow often on lead-laden carcasses and gutpiles left over by hunters - had high levels of lead in their blood. Lead, says Andreano, is perhaps the primary barrier to the species' recovery...
...Iraq's Assyrian and Chaldean Christians would seek refuge from the chaos of post-Saddam Iraq in one of the most Christian countries in the Middle East - almost one third of Lebanon's population is Christian, and the country's presidency is reserved for them. "Iraqi Christians feel comfortable in a country where Christians have power," says Mark Samuel, the president of a Lebanese Assyrian political party. At the town's Assyrian Church of St. George, Iraqi refugees now make up almost one-third of the congregation. "It was bad in Iraq under the old regime," says James Isho, whose...