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...Members of the élite, like Mitt Romney and Representatives Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo, are whipping up the U.S.'s xenophobia to divide the nation. The root of the problem is that the law does not allow needed immigrant workers to come to the U.S. legally. The so-called illegal immigrants are no more illegal than those who settled America. If anyone is to blame, it is the companies that provide employment to the new settlers. Neil Redlien, TOWSON...
...Ringo, "that I had to hop to school. We only had one shoe.") He hasn't been back to Merseyside since his stepdad's funeral 11 years ago. Ask Ringo if he's English and he answers, "No. I'm world." If there's a football match, he'll root for England or his real passion, Liverpool FC; otherwise, he says, "I feel more American sometimes than most Americans." His accent, unlike the man himself, still pays dues to his homeland, but also owes a few of its cadences to California. Yet Ringo sees himself as a typical Liverpudlian...
...sanitation. Over two million children, especially those in poverty-stricken areas where water is highly contaminated or inaccessible, die every year for want of clean water. Both the fickle faucets of India’s suburbs and the crisis conditions of its poorer areas stem from the same problematic root: that even in the presence of opportunity and emergency, the Indian government has failed to address the national shortage of clean water. Much of the blame lies with India’s poorly managed central distribution system, a relic of British colonial rule. Because the government fails at providing...
...entire species—billions of people—playing with, listening to, meaningless tonal patterns, occupied and preoccupied for much of their time by what they call ‘music.’” Sacks tries to get to the root of this peculiarity by bringing us into the eccentric, sometimes tragic, and sometimes moving world that he first introduced in books like “Awakenings” and “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” a world populated by Sacks’s patients, many...
...with the odds seemingly stacked in Harvard’s favor, I feel that an apology is in order. Here it goes:Dear Mystery Voter,I fear that until recently, I had mistakenly been drinking the Haterade located between the Coke and Barq’s root beer in my dining hall’s beverage area. But now, in the immortal words of Jay-Z, “I see your vision mama [or papa].” I believe in your prophetic powers, and because of this I will do something I should have done a long time...