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...Until this weekend, the ninth-ranked Crimson has faced the traditionally weaker teams of the ECAC. Its toughest competition has come from the unlikely sources of Colgate and Brown, who handed the Crimson its first loss and tie respectively...
Many Americans are confused about whether the continuous inflow of immigrants makes the country stronger or weaker. Economic studies abound claiming that immigration spurs new businesses and new taxpayers. With no less conviction, others contend that immigrants and their children evade taxes and overburden local welfare, health and education systems. To compound the confusion, many Americans believe -- wrongly -- that more foreigners enter the country illegally than do legally. As the doubts grow, so does the potential for backlash. Polls show that almost two-thirds of Americans favor new laws to cut back on all immigrants and asylum seekers -- legal...
...changes almost certainly mean trouble for smaller parties, which tended to win seats as the fourth- or fifth-place finisher in multimember districts. Some of the weaker parties may win seats on the proportional list, but probably far fewer than in the past. That has already incensed some of the Social Democratic Party members in Hosokawa's own coalition, and five of them voted against the government plan. "It's over for the Social Democrats," said Masao Kunihiro, an upper-house member of the party. "This new system stamps out minority views...
Mainly (though some panels are weaker than others) the style gives the pictures an infrangible gravity, as in No. 57, The Female Worker Was Also One of the Last Groups to Leave the South, with its single figure of a laundress in a white smock, stirring a vat of fabrics -- blue, black, yellow, pink -- with her pole: a dense and well-locked composition, suggesting the permanence and resistance that form one of the underlying themes of Lawrence's great series...
...only a couple of the weaker songs were replaced by more solid tracks, Midnight Marauders would have been a great album. But as it is, it's merely good and that's not enough...