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...American phenomenon. President George W. Bush calls it therapeutic: "Immigration helps renew our soul. It helps redefine our spirit in a positive way." From Emma Lazarus' poem on the base of the Statue of Liberty, welcoming "huddled masses," to yesterday's naturalization ceremonies, immigration is as American as apple pie. But so, historically, is opposition to immigration. And while that opposition has often been infused with bigotry, it has also reflected reasonable concerns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Fear of Outsiders | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

Historically immigrants come to love the flag, Mom and apple pie. But immigration isn't the flag. It's a route to the American experience, and the traffic flow has always been an issue of debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Fear of Outsiders | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...last was Peter N. Woodfork ’99, who now serves as the current assistant general manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks. Though Harvard has had several Latin-American players in the past, Hispanics at the collegiate level account for even less of the national pie, at 4.3 percent...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How Fair is Fair Harvard? | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...Jones plays Elizabeth, a young woman mired in depression over a recently ended affair. She strikes up a friendship with Jeremy (Jude Law), who runs a bar-restaurant in one of the seedier sections of New York. On her frequent visits there, she orders blueberry pie - a dish no one else orders - and he falls a little in love with her loneliness. She leaves New York for Memphis, where she gets a couple of waitressing jobs and meets a cop (David Strathairn) who's sunk into alcoholism over the departure of his good-time wife Sue Lynne (Rachel Weisz). Elizabeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blue Skies and Blueberry Nights | 5/16/2007 | See Source »

...Iraq. [Longtime US weapons inspector] Charles Duelfer was told by an Iraqi friend that, in the past, Iraqis were not accustomed to thinking of themselves primarily as Shia or Sunni. But the way we implemented democracy had led people to believe that they deserved a piece of the pie based on their membership in a certain group. So the whole dynamic was to pull away from the center. The decisions we made tended to fracture Iraq, not to bring it together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Excerpt: Tenet Strikes Back | 4/29/2007 | See Source »

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