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...Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) announced late last week that she would introduce legislation to reform the U.S. student visa program—which currently is easily abused, she said. She noted that a number of the suspected terrorists in the Sept. 11 attacks were in the U.S. on student visas—even though they never attended the schools in which they were supposedly enrolled...
...events of 1959 are a glaring example of the American propensity to limit free travel for political purposes. When Fidel Castro took over Cuba promising social reform, the U.S. denounced him as a Communist (long before Castro declared it himself). After an ugly exchange of words, much resembling the “Yes, you are,” “No, I’m not” format of toddlers bickering over toys, the U.S. promptly banned travel to the island...
...named Frank Silva Roque drove by in a black Chevy pickup and pumped three bullets into Sodhi, killing him almost instantly, mocking innocence and sweetness. Sodhi appears to have died because he looked Muslim. He was not. He was a Sikh, and his religion was born as a reform of Hinduism. But to some, the turban and beard that most Sikhs wear look like Osama bin Laden's. When the police caught Roque, they claim he explained his actions by saying, "I'm an American...
...life. This time, more than 150 organizations from left and right have organized an umbrella group, In Defense of Freedom, that may be the first umbrella that Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum has ever shared with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. As head of Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist is ordinarily one of Washington's most high-profile conservative activists. But he hasn't forgotten that during the 1995 battle, Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick suggested that the new powers could be used against militant tax evaders. "Prosecutors always want more power," says Norquist. "We need...
...fight for campaign finance reform made a brief stop in Cambridge on Saturday...