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...Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which provided that employers could be fined up to $10,000 for every illegal alien they hired, and repeat offenders could be sent to jail. The act was a response to the widespread belief that employer sanctions were the only way to stem the tide. "We need employer sanctions to reduce the attraction of jobs in the U.S.," an INS spokesman declared as Congress debated the bill. When President Ronald Reagan signed it, he called the sanctions the "keystone" of the law. "It will remove the incentive for illegal immigration by eliminating...
...hypocrisy in Spain about this," he says. "People don't want to admit to the racism that exists in this country." Piara Powar, director of Kick It Out, a London-based organization that works to combat racism in soccer, concurs. "The problems in Spain," he says, "stem from the way in which the subjects of race and ethnicity are not really part of public debate." That may be changing. The Spanish government has invested some €200 million in campaigns to promote tolerance, including screening educational films at stadiums and requiring guides against racism to be distributed. Last year...
...Ball agrees with President George W. Bush's positions on abstinence, stem-cell research, traditional marriage and the rights of an unborn child. But the Administration's environmental policies strike him as morally wrongheaded, and he's not afraid to say so. He led the 2002 "What Would Jesus Drive?" campaign against gas-guzzling cars and was one of the organizers of the Evangelical Climate Initiative in February, when 86 evangelical Christian leaders called on Congress to regulate carbon-dioxide emissions...
...courses, perhaps with emphasis on attendance and discussions or presentations, rather than equation sheets and problem sets. I don’t want to use a graphing calculator, or learn to chart population growth on an Excel spreadsheet, but I would like to understand the mechanics and ethics of stem cell research, or speak to a top professor about the intersection of demography and public health. These classes would be based less on minutiae and focus instead on helping to expand our understanding of the big picture, while teaching us some practical (that word again) analytical and quantitative skills...
...American efforts to try and help stem the deadly sectarianism will likely do little good - and in some respects may well exacerbate the problem. Instead of increasing the number of civilian advisors to Iraq's local police forces, a spokeswoman for the Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq (MNSTC-I) said more U.S. military police and military personnel will be assigned to train them. The Special Police Transition Teams (SPTTs) are the model that will be followed. "The SPTTs have been very successful in their efforts," the spokeswoman said. No change is planned for the oversight program on the National Police...