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...jobs, the increased business activity, and the revitalization associated with a cutting edge research facility that would have drastically altered the Allston’s urban landscape now seem a rather distant reality to most residents...
...they will be forced to accept and make do with whichever House they are assigned. Once freshmen know where they will live for the rest of their college careers, however, House unity can begin to make a difference in how they view their assignments. Often, students seem to be happiest in the Houses where they least expected to be, but no matter how many times proctors and peer advising fellows repeat this statement, their efforts are undermined by the House one-upmanship that goes on over e-mail lists...
However, real threats should not be conflated with harassment. Joining them into a combined number is a dishonest political effort to sway public opinion by making the number of threats seem larger. Likewise, it’s wrong to give unbalanced attention to threats against Democrats with little regard to threats against Republicans...
...Senators, New York Democrat Chuck Schumer and South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, certainly seem to think so. They recently presented an immigration-bill blueprint to President Barack Obama that includes a proposal to issue a biometric ID card - one that would contain physical data such as fingerprints or retinal scans - to all working Americans. The "enhanced Social Security card" is being touted as a way to curb illegal immigration by giving employers the power to quickly and accurately determine who is eligible to work. "If you say [illegal immigrants] can't get a job when they come here...
...former chief counsel for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, says the pace of expanding the program is crucial. He believes that issuing the cards on a rolling basis and viewing them as "the next version of the driver's license" makes the idea of a nationally issued biometric ID seem much less daunting. "I think that there is a risk in overreaching too quickly," he says...