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...granting more migrants safe passage, advocates say, the reforms would reduce demand for the coyote Mafias, help stanch the tide of migrant deaths and allow U.S. authorities to spend more time securing the border against potential terrorists. The bill's backers are using Congress's August recess to lobby the White House hard to sign on to the proposed legislation. "If we create a legal mechanism for people who just want to come work and then go home," says Arizona Representative Jeff Flake, "we can focus our border interdiction on people who do want to do us real harm...
...Meanwhile, Wendy Kopp has 3,200 TFA members recruited so far who will not be receiving scholarship money this year. More broadly, AmeriCorps itself faces a reduction from approximately 55,000 to 35,000 members. Just before the summer recess, the Senate passed a $100 million appropriation to restore these cuts, but House majority leader Tom DeLay-who has made no secret of his desire to kill AmeriCorps-blocked the money. The President says he wants these funds restored, but he doesn't seem to have much control over the powerful DeLay. Even if Bush means what he says, Teach...
Yesterday, he said that the second porter’s failure to show up and testify did not seem to have been part of any such large-scale delaying tactic—nor did the judge’s one-week recess worry...
...only one aspect, but important: As a nation, we're fattening the children by starving the schools. People buy into the pro-tax-cut mentality, and then schools - and children - pay the price. Many schools have cut physical education classes and after-school sports, and some have even eliminated recess. Cash-strapped school districts make deals to let soda and candy machines and fast food into the schools in return for money that we weren't willing to pay in taxes. Peggy Datz California...
...been floundering since BBC correspondent Andrew Gilligan reported that a "British official involved in the preparation of the dossier" had fingered Blair's communications director, Alastair Campbell, for "sexing up" that document over the objections of intelligence officials. But by last week, as Parliament emptied for the long summer recess, Blair had grounds to think he might be turning a corner. By majority vote, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons had cleared Campbell of tampering with the dossier. After a second session with Gilligan last Thursday, the committee's chairman declared his colleagues found him a "most...