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...soft-spoken yet articulate John, who declined to give his full name, stays busy raising four children as a single parent and says his main concern for the election is education...
...here representing Harvard on an international level, and I’m having the time of my life,” said Taylor, who had spoken similar words following her third-place finish at U.S. Nationals in June...
...worse," observed Patricia Forkan, senior vice president of the Humane Society International. "The pro-whaling lobby is bringing in countries with no history with the IWC, or even with whaling. Their job appears to be to filibuster, confound and confuse - to influence voters by the sheer number of words spoken." And, she might have added, sheer number of people present. Japan had a team of 50 - twice that of the next largest, those of the U.S. and Britain. Japan's tactics didn't work this year. For the world's biggest foreign aid donor of the past decade, the votes...
Remaking immigration law would also fulfill a dream of sorts for Bush. Raised in a border state, he has spoken sympathetically about the dangers illegal migrants face and the economic imperative that drives them. He also knows that while it will be years before they become voters, their friends and relatives are among the 35 million Hispanic Americans who are watching him carefully. "This is a critical opportunity for Bush," said La Raza vice president Cecilia Munoz...
...unclear whether President Bush will sign such a provision. He has spoken against racial profiling in only the most general terms. But conservatives are mounting a campaign to defeat the legislation. In the City Journal, based in New York City, Heather Mac Donald, senior fellow of a right-leaning think tank called the Manhattan Institute, argues that disproportionate traffic stops may be rational because there is "some evidence" that minorities commit more traffic violations per capita...