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...reality." The bills that have been circulating in Congress take different, sometimes overlapping approaches to the problem. The most divisive issue among them is whether undocumented immigrants should be required to return to their home country before applying for a work visa or whether they could get guest-worker status without leaving the U.S. The second, more lenient option has been attacked by the Minutemen and other conservative groups as tantamount to amnesty...
...moving Padilla into the criminal-justice system, the Bush Administration may be able to avoid a Supreme Court review of Padilla's status as an enemy combatant, a thorny legal issue. But his attorneys note that if the court doesn't rule on the matter, other U.S. citizens could be detained indefinitely without being charged, as could Padilla again...
...their high-fenced enclosure, snuffling and backing away when a stranger arrives. Having bred them for 20 years, Watson's home is full of photos and paintings of dingoes, but her argument for their protection is based less on sentiment than on her belief in their ecological status. "They're Australia's lion - and everyone knows that if you take out the top predator, things go bad," she says, as puppies roll in balls of golden fluff at her feet. "The outside world seems far more interested in the dingo than Australians are. Government puts so many millions into destroying...
...service, to ease some of the workload of local AES boss Mike Nolan. While some in the AES worry about a change in direction in the security service - away from events and supermarkets to quasi-policing in no-go estates - Estens believes the work is important in restoring male status. "The idea of the warrior and the place of men in Aboriginal families has been eroded," he says. "Security work builds male self-esteem in these towns...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) recently threw its weight behind the cause of eight Tulane freshmen who spent their first semester at Harvard, proposing a plan that would allow these students to apply for spring transfer status in a special round of applications preceding the standard transfer application cycle. Certainly, the circumstances of these eight students are unfortunate, and all in the Harvard community want to handle this situation with as much respect and sensitivity as possible. Nevertheless, the central facts of this issue cannot be ignored. For reasons of fairness and practicality, the UC’s plan is misguided...