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...WOULD IT WORK? Illegal migrants could apply for a temporary permit that would allow them to work legally for up to three years. To get a permit, the worker would need a sponsor. Holiday Inn, say, would join with its cleaning woman to inform the government, and in return the employee would get legal status for three years and all the rights accorded American workers, such as a minimum wage and more stringent health and safety standards...
...WILL IT WORK? The big question is whether illegals will want to identify themselves without a more certain guarantee that they can eventually become citizens. Under Bush's plan, the permit would expire in three years, after which the worker would have to line up behind millions of others to receive full citizenship. The Administration thinks there are enough incentives to make illegals come forward, and there is also the possibility that the three-year agreement could be renewed...
...meat and eggs three times a week to minister to Mikey's osteoporosis. "Her bones were damaged," Rubens, 55, reports. "She had X rays and shots, and now I have to cook her food." Rubens isn't sure whether, even if Alex took Mikey, her son's lifestyle would permit the care this exotic pet requires. "It's hard to have much rapport with a turtle," Rubens admits, "but I feel responsible for this fragile, vulnerable creature...
...sexual impulse doesn't vanish with age, even if--how to say this delicately?--execution sometimes falters. There's plenty of evidence--scientific and otherwise--that healthy seniors, even residents of nursing homes, continue to have active sex lives. Consider the decision of a Riverdale, N.Y., senior home to permit trysts among clients as long as they are consensual. Or the buzz about the film Something's Gotta Give, in which Jack Nicholson plays a 62-year-old roue who boasts of never having had sex with a woman over 30, only to free-fall for Diane Keaton, his latest...
...Musharraf declared that credit for the rapprochement went to Vajpayee's "vision, commitment and flexibility"?and it's been a very long time since a Pakistani leader has praised an Indian Prime Minister so sincerely. Simultaneously, Pakistan gave a written commitment that it would "not permit any territory under [its] control to be used to support terrorism in any manner," the most definitive response to India's constant drum thump on that issue?and, presumably, a reaction to the attempts on Musharraf's life...