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...workforce are illegal immigrants and that industry needs 300,000 to 500,000 new workers a year in order to cover for retiring baby boomers. But with anti-immigration activists like Sensenbrenner getting the drop on business last year, it was not easy to turn the tide. Public sentiment seemed to be largely behind the Sensenbrenner agenda, so the lobbyists focused their efforts on quietly lining up Judiciary Committee Republicans and ensuring a bill would get a vote on the floor of the Senate. Allies in the religious community and among immigrant rights groups helped organize the massive rallies over...
...That?s the kind of sentiment that makes black people outwardly enraged - while inwardly we cringe about the very real harm it has on our community. Members of every minority group, after all, are fully aware of how the greater society views them. But it's not just that they are personally offended by such bigotry - it's also pragmatism. The way you are perceived-by parents, teachers and, yes, random strangers-affects the person you become and how far you go in life...
...many of the ads on television and in print for medicines that treat depression. The ubiquity of these advertisements and the commonness of the symptoms can often give the impression that everyone is depressed. Such a sentiment has led to a backlash, with people declaring that depression is something we should all get used to. Many mental health advocates often then angrily fire back that it is outrageous and horrible to tell people that they must learn to live with depression...
...many Afghans, the ?favorable resolution? would be Rahman?s execution. It?s not only the country?s conservative clergy that is calling for his death. "He has brought shame on the name of Afghanistan and deserves to die," said Daud Massoud, 37, a taxi driver in Kabul. That sentiment resonates strongest in the country?s deeply conservative south and east, over which Kabul exercises little control. These are also the areas where the Taliban is making a comeback and top Al-Qaeda commanders are believed to be hiding...
...complex, citing movies as having “uber-heroes” who “show a greater deal of emotional range than their predecessors.” Braxton said he organized the talk because he believed masculinity was neglected in discussions of gender and sexuality, a sentiment shared by most of the panelists. “I believe it was the feminist movement in the 1970s and its challenge of gender roles that has caused us to challenge traditional ideas of masculinity,” said Juan Carlos Arean, of the Family Violence Prevention Fund...