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Like many a childless couple, we conferred the status of treasured child upon the dog. We phoned each other with updates of his escapades. We gave him nicknames like Bunny and Sir Gas-a-lot. Framed photos of him adorned our home and my office. For Christmas portraits, we dressed him in a Santa...
...eight years to fulfill a series of hurdles (including medical and background checks, English and civics classes, $1,500 in fines and - for heads of households - a return trip to their country of origin to symbolically reenter the country legally) before they can apply for green-card permanent resident status. Green card holders can apply for citizenship after five years...
Offering a path from illegal to legal immigrant status is the issue is that defeated President George W. Bush's immigration reform plan in last year's G.O.P.-controlled Congress. House Republicans, and moderate Democrats, balked at granting any kind of "amnesty" - no matter how many tests the bill creates to make it "earned" citizenship...
...Backed by labour unions, political organizations and 15 other mayors in the greater Attica region, Kortzidis gained overnight celebrity status and won national support for his cause. Thousands of supporters poured onto the streets for a beachfront rally, as a nationwide debate resumed over the commericialization of beaches. Critics billed the mayor's protest an "extreme stunt," but that did not deter the once rotund Kortzidis, who fasted for 24 days and shed 16 pounds. He ended his water-and-fruit-juice protest last Sunday after assurances from the government that it would produce new legislation on the management...
...least $500,000 in campaign funds, Nagin is said to have his eye on the 2008 gubernatorial race. Few people think he could actually win, but the real possibility of making it into a runoff against the G.O.P. fron-trunner, U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal, would cement his status as the top dog among black Louisiana politicians and add to his stature with the national party...