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With the California bill in the bag, Fong now plans to take the issue to Congress, where he will request an apology for the Chinese Exclusion Act, the only federal law ever enacted to deny immigration based exclusively on race or nationality. Passed in 1882, the law was not fully repealed until 1943, after China and the U.S. became allies in WWII. Given President Obama's decision to appoint Gary Locke as Commerce Secretary and Steven Chu as Energy Secretary, Fong says he's confident of the bill's passage. "As a person of color, President Obama would understand these...
Most of the dishes served on the original Apollo flights have been improved, altered or completely discarded in favor of new items. The famous freeze-dried ice cream was created on request for an Apollo 7 crew member, but the astronauts disliked it so much that it has never been used again. A few years ago, NASA tried to resolve complaints about fish-based dishes smelling "too fishy," but their solution, thermo-stabilized swordfish in tomato sauce, tasted so bad that some astronauts refused to eat it. But despite all the setbacks and unappealing concoctions, there is still one food...
...kitchen to leave the home, and that Gates followed the officer to the front door only to see multiple other police officers standing outside. When Gates stepped onto the front porch to ask for the police officer's name, the officer said "thank you for accommodating my earlier request" and placed Gates under arrest, Ogletree said...
...ogling of teenager by • NAACP is passionately addressed by • shattering of teleprompter of • "sissy pitch" by at All-Star Game is compared by desperate right-wing Web sites to 2001 World Series strike by George W. Bush as yet more evidence, in case the recent sissy request by for Dijon mustard wasn't enough, that we were oh so much better off with a manly man like Bush in the White House...
...July 7, in response to the furor the monk-case allegations had provoked, Sarkozy agreed to "declassify all documents justice officials request" to enable investigating judges to "continue getting all means to conduct their inquiry." Two days later, he extended that offer to the Karachi bombing investigation. The President had initially derided the idea that the bombing might have been a Pakistani revenge attack as "grotesque." "Who would ever believe such a fable?" he asked...