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Superficially, the major backers of anti-immigration legislation are nativist red staters afraid of a massive influx of migrants from Latin America. But unbeknownst to most, it’s actually a shady cabal of indie music label lobbyists pushing border reform laws down the nation’s throat, because they know the truth: the Canadians are stealing our stages...
...just excited to get behind a ticket that will go beyond structural reform of the UC and focus on the students." Dems President Brigit M. Helgen ’08 said...
Russians learned Thursday that former prime minister Yegor Gaidar, the mastermind of Russia's early 1990s "shock therapy" economic reform, was poisoned last Friday in Dublin. Irish doctors managed to save Gaidar from what he now calls "a threat to my life." The doctors appear to have established that the affliction that caused Gaidar's nosebleeds and violent vomiting was no routine case of food poisoning, and are waiting for the results of forensic tests to determine the cause of an illness for which they could find no conventional explanation. Even President Vladimir Putin called to offer Gaidar his sympathies...
...contrast, argue that their tardy score reporting was in fact planned. Regardless, the delays means that students in both states are unable to know officially whether they are eligible for free tutoring or to transfer to another school if they attend a failing school, as mandated under the reform law. While a dozen states have experienced delays this year in getting their scores pulled together, none were as far behind as the bureaucrats in the Land of Lincoln and Big Sky Country...
...poor southern state of Oaxaca. In its broader context, the violence reflects a national backlash against the utter failure of globalization and a fledgling democracy to address Mexico's gross economic inequality. And that powder keg is nudging Calderon to acknowledge that the sort of social investment and regulatory reform programs for which he once ridiculed Lopez Obrador may not be such a bad idea. He recently spoke favorably to TIME of major initiatives in health and education and "reducing the power" of Mexico's gluttonous monopolies...