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...easy to understand why the idea of an amnesty would spark such a negative reaction. The country tried one with the 1986 law. Nearly 3 million people took advantage of it, and the amnesty was followed by an explosion in illegal immigration. But not to offer some process by which illegal immigrants gain legitimacy is to keep them permanently underground. "To me, it goes to the core of your view and recognition of human dignity for everybody," says Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, another of the Judiciary Committee Republicans who voted for legalization. But to do it is to reward lawbreaking...
...geologist Jeffrey Mount, would be the failure of the delta's aging levee system, which protects not just farmland and residential areas but also the water supply for some 23 million people. Shaken hard enough, the foundations of the levees would crumple, and in a kind of hydrological chain reaction, brackish water from the Bay would surge inland, contaminating the freshwater that aqueducts carry all the way to Los Angeles...
...freedom of expression often find themselves disgusted and horrified by what they see. "University students are often too cool, too hip to understand why other people get perturbed," Kipnis says. "Showing a film like this allows them to react and then to take a step back and analyze their reaction with the critical tools you give them...
DIED. BERNARD LACOSTE, 74, who presided over the Lacoste apparel company for 40 years and made its crocodile logo a much imitated global brand; in Paris. After taking over the sportswearmaker--founded by his tennis-champ father René Lacoste, who created the signature polo shirt in reaction to the stifling long-sleeved Oxfords worn by players in the 1920s--the younger Lacoste licensed its logo to manufacturers across the globe and increased sales volume from 300,000 items in the 1960s to 50 million last year...
...very hard to establish societies based on European values. But the European hostility toward an Indian's move into their world has shattered our confidence. On the merger issue, it is very sad to note that the Europeans turned out to be as conservative as any traditional Easterner. Their reaction confirmed that a strong psychological barrier between West and East still exists. Anis Alam Saeed Karachi...