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...Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Professor Ruth Wisse voiced a similar sentiment in a phone interview...
...natural-born citizens—primarily, this takes the form of social welfare programs. While it is true that Proposition 300 curbs spending on immigrants, education is unique in that is helps immigrants to assimilate and become productive members of society. It seems like a rather un-American sentiment that proponents of Proposition 300 are not interested in welcoming well-educated immigrants who want to contribute to the public good, and it betrays a position that stems from irrational cultural anxieties instead of from exclusively economic concerns...
...only the results that are shocking, but also the way they have been announced," said Jalal Khoshchehreh, an editor at the center-reformist newspaper Kargozaran, echoing the sentiment not only among reformists, but also among conservatives in the Wide Coalition of Principalists, who are critical of Ahmadinejad's policies. Both protested the announcement by Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi - before the counting was even complete - that the United Principalists had won 71% of the seats. "The Interior Minister who is supposed to be a neutral body clearly crossed a red line," wrote one reformist commentator...
Economists are quick to point out that a weak dollar doesn't necessarily mean a strong yen. The exchange rate of the yen to other currencies - such as the euro - still shows depreciation. But the dollar-yen pair heavily weights consumer sentiment and the stock market, says Takahide Kiuchi, chief economist at Nomura Securities, and the rate right now has an overall negative affect...
...against monarchism. The Latin motto is lifted from the English rebel Algernon Sydney, a vehement opponent of the Restoration who was executed for conspiring to kill Charles II. It refers not to a conquest of native peoples but to an ethos of colonial liberation that had become the archetypal sentiment of Massachusetts patriots. The image of the sword refers to the first half of Sydney’s injunction: “manus haec, inimica Tyrannis,” or, “this hand, opposed to tyrants...