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Caleb Foote ’39, former managing editor of the Harvard Crimson who later became a pacifist organizer and notable advocate for bail reform, died of a blood infection on March 4 in Santa Rosa, California. He was 88 years old. A New England native, Foote was born in Cambridge and attended Harvard College from 1935 to 1939. Two years later, he received his masters degree in economics from Columbia University. At Harvard, Foote lived in Whigglesworth his freshman year and in Eliot House, where he was elected to the House Committee. As a sophomore, he ran for Student...
...immigrants, including one that would strip citizenship rights from the native-born children of those who entered the country illegally. But the most disturbing thing about the debate over immigration is not what is being said by the radical right, but the nature of the debate itself.Every immigration reform proposal currently being discussed has one common message: those folks ain’t okay. The most tolerant piece of legislation being considered in Congress—proposed by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ‘54-’56 (D-Mass.) and Senator John McCain (R-Ariz...
...Mexico border that was part of an immigration bill passed by the House in December, while Senate Republicans questioned if their leader, Bill Frist, was allowing his presidential ambitions to get in the way of passing immigration legislation. And as the Senate moved forward with a lenient immigration reform plan, a group of almost two dozen House Republicans held a press conference to strongly denounce the Senate GOP's approach...
...articulated ideas than Democrats, who are often at war with one another and questioning their leadership. But lately the Democrats, looking to create a campaign platform for 2006, have put out some ideas that their famously fractured party largely agrees on. Earlier this year, they released a plan to reform lobbying following the scandals of Jack Abramoff. Last week's security ideas were hardly earth-shattering: increasing inspection of goods coming through U.S. ports, doubling the number of Special Forces troops, pushing Iraq toward full sovereignty by the end of this year, and increasing efforts to make the U.S. less...
...contrast, on many key issues, Republicans can't find much agreement. Moderates and conservatives in House will spend this week battling over proposed spending cuts in the budget, while Republicans in the Senate fight about immigration reform. President Bush's domestic agenda, from health savings accounts to a commission to reform Social Security and other entitlement plans, has drawn little enthusiasm on Capitol Hill...