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Sources: The Path Between the Seas, by David McCullough; The Panama Canal, by Lesley A. Dutemple; An Autobiography, by Theodore Roosevelt; Letters and Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt; Destiny by Design, by Jeremy Sherman Snapp...
...House road show is rooted in the frustrations of its Republican leaders, who had been telling the White House for weeks that they couldn't accept the Senate bill, which gives many illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. "They didn't seem to want to hear that," says a top congressional aide. So House Speaker Dennis Hastert, in a meeting before the annual congressional picnic at the White House on June 15, told Bush about his planned hearings to rally opposition to the Senate's bill. Bush's reaction? "He listened," Hastert says...
...infinite variety and character of English gardens have been delighting visitors for centuries. And the green and pleasant land's love affair with horticulture still thrives - an array of sublime landscapes awaits those prepared to venture off the proverbial[an error occurred while processing this directive] garden path. Classical gardens don't get much finer than those at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. Designed by Capability Brown in the 18th century, the grounds are so grand it's said they inspired Jane Austen's vision of Mr. Darcy's home in Pride and Prejudice; Chatsworth was used...
Getting Republicans together has been the major stumbling block on immigration reform. Twenty-three GOP senators supported President Bush's plan, which would strengthen border security, create a guest worker program and offer a path to citizenship for the some 10 million illegals already in this country. On the other side are most House Republicans, who want border security only and don't want to hear about anything that they regard as "amnesty" until later, if ever. Today House Republicans stunned their Senate colleagues by announcing that they intend to hold public hearings around the country this August to highlight...
That promise is luring others home. When Samant left school 20 years ago, any Indian with ambition and means got out, and Samant followed a well-trodden path to Stanford and on to Oracle in California's Silicon Valley. Then in 1991 Singh, at the time the country's Finance Minister, began to open up India, dismantling a creaking socialist command economy that had chained India to poverty and stagnation since independence. Samant returned home with a mad new plan: to make wine in a country where alcohol was taboo and the closest thing to sophisticated intoxication was hooch. Thirteen...