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...city full of leaks, there are some secrets you can keep from the President. Last Thursday, when most of the city was focused on the possibility that Chief Justice William Rehnquist was about to resign from the Supreme Court, White House counsel Harriet Miers got a call from Pamela Talkin, head marshal at the Supreme Court, who told her that a sealed letter from the court would be delivered to the White House the next morning. Talkin did not say what would be in it. But Miers, like everyone else, knew that the resignation of a Justice was probably imminent...
Whatever happens in Massachusetts, Pamela wants to stay in the country she sees as her home. She isn't sure what she will do if she doesn't go to college. She can't work legally, though she might do some baby sitting. But her long-term plan is clear. "I'd like to become an American citizen," she says. That would be one way to solve the tuition problem. --With reporting by Bud Norman/Wichita
...Pamela" would like you to know that she loves art. That she would have got honors at her graduation from Marlborough High School in Marlborough, Mass., last month, except for a slip on her Algebra II final. That she would go to the Massachusetts College of Art this fall, but her restaurant-worker parents can't pay the nearly $18,000 tuition. And that the tuition would cost just $6,400 if state legislators approved a bill to allow students like her, an illegal immigrant, to pay in-state rates at Massachusetts' public colleges and universities...
...Pamela, who arrived with her family from Chile in 2000 and does not wish to reveal her real name, is one of an estimated 50,000 to 65,000 illegal immigrants who got diplomas from U.S. high schools this spring. They graduated into a furor over in-state tuition, one of the fiercest debates over immigration policy today. Illegal aliens can qualify for in-state tuition rates in nine states, including Texas, Kansas and California. But a lawsuit challenging Kansas' law and the failure of legislatures to approve similar policies in 18 other states this year reflect widespread unease about...
...gain by arranging burials in space [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, Sept. 29]. To have the ashes of dead people floating in the heavens, and to look at the stars and moon through their remains, does not seem right. A public outcry should stop this outrage before it happens. Pamela Sharp Albuquerque Television Trends...