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...grandparents were from Mexico. My parents were born in the U.S. and grew up in a mainly Mexican community. They were raised to be bilingual and bicultural and graduated high school at a time when they were forbidden to speak Spanish there. My dad is a Korean War veteran. My brothers and I attended college. I married a Mexican farmworker with a green card. ˇDios mio! I remember a time when we rarely saw a brown face in the media. Immigrants remain the hardworking, grateful backbone of this great country's stability...
...Unlike the House, where the leadership gets to decide both the timing and the terms of debate for everything that comes to the floor, the Senate makes every member essentially a free agent, with the power to gum up the works whenever he or she feels like it. Veteran New York Times reporter Adam Clymer remembers once asking then-Majority Leader George Mitchell - who was better at the job than most - why he was interested in leaving the post to become commissioner of baseball. Why would Mitchell want a job that where he would get bossed around by 32 rich...
...prime example of the "Rumsfeld man," in the opinion of citics, is Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Peter Pace. The first Marine to hold the chairmanship and a decorated Vietnam veteran, Pace has the background of a courageous warrior. But active duty and retired officers contend that Pace, who was vice chairman before Rumsfeld backed him to take over the top post last year, has been blindly supportive of Rumsfeld, going out of his way to praise...
...Pole” up and down the riverbank to warm up participants before taking the dip. This year, most swimmers opted to enter the icy waters from the bank of the river, although a few renegades did leap from the Weeks Memorial Footbridge. Three-year Polar Bear veteran Jason B. Munster ’07 said, “The first year we did it, when we jumped off the bridge, we lacerated our feet on the rocks.” Also on hand were newly-elected UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 and Vice President Matthew...
...That will be a very tall order for the veteran politician. Jefferson is the target of a federal probe into allegations that he shook down a Kentucky entrepreneur for $100,000 in bribes and lucrative contracts for a business owned by Jefferson's wife in exchange for the Congressman's help in procuring contracts for the Kentucky technology firm, iGate, in West Africa. Two people connected with the case, including former iGate CEO Vernon Jackson, have pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with investigators...