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...entered this country using student visas. Though some of the “students” never attended school, the Immigration and Naturalization Service was unaware of their activities. In an attempt to make it more difficult for foreign terrorists to hide in the U.S. by posing as students, Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) has proposed a bill to keep closer tabs on foreigners studying in this country. Unfortunately, the provisions of the bill are both harsh and ill-focused. Should the bill pass, it would discourage many foreign students and few foreign terrorists...
...Sen. 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...
...reduction in the number of flights offered, the financial fallout will extend well beyond the airline industry. Boeing, the nation’s leading aircraft manufacturer, has already announced that it will lay off as many as 30,000 machinists and other workers. In response to these feared layoffs, Sen. Jean Carnahan (D-Mo.) has announced plans to introduce a $3.75 billion bill that would provide health coverage, job training and unemployment benefits for former airline workers...
...attachment to the vacuum, the one not worth the aggravation to use ordinarily, and sucked up every cobweb in my house. Even that nether region under the radiators would pass the white glove test. This wouldn't be worth mentioning, except there's a lot of this going around. Sen. Richard Shelby lives on my street and we marveled Tuesday morning about how the street was spilling over with black trash bags. A lot of closets being cleaned out. I told the Senator about my own and how I'd blitzed the kitchen cabinets, tossing stale spices and ancient condiments...
Some suggested that the term may not be as offensive as it would have been if used decades earlier. Sen said some Pakistanis are appropriating the word for themselves. Fatima Raja ’03, a Pakistani, said the slur seemed to be gaining a modicum of acceptance...