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...remains to be seen whether these raids will be enough to heighten the risk of doing business with cheap undocumented workers against the risk of being caught. It is going to be ineffective in curbing undocumented immigration, says Christina DeConcini, director of policy for the National Immigration Forum, a group advocating for comprehensive reform and a path to citizenship for undocumented workers. "The need for people to fill these jobs is very strong...
...Professor Galia Golan, Professor of Government at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya believes that, for the moment, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will have widespread popular support to launch a strong response, since the attack was unprovoked and will naturally heighten the sense of a nation that will never be accepted by its neighbors...
...Richard M. Daley thinks he can change all that. Daley recently announced the creation of a Fashion Advisory Council, a city-backed coalition of local designers and industry champions who will promote fashion growth. By nurturing designers, the city hopes to bolster its retail economy, gain tourism dollars and heighten its image as a world-class city...
...Then again, that just could be the boxed wine talking. There's nothing as sexy as a tease and Gore probably knows that his dance of the seven veils does more to heighten the movie's profile than the movie could ever do for his. It's about global warming, for goodness' sakes. A significant portion of its visual content consists of charts. It's the concert video only Al Gore could be the star of. Gore's groupies in the Geographic rotunda responded to him in the way high school students greet a returning alum who has surpassed expectations...
...What is, then, the motive for the rush to heighten the situation and create a crisis? Could it be that the extremists all around see their interests - however transient, domestic and short-sighted - in heightened tension and crisis? This situation, if not contained with cool head and if miscalculations continue, can easily turn into a crisis with potentially global ramifications for the rule of law under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and for the economic and security interests of all concerned in the region and beyond. It is high time to cease sensationalism and war mongering, pause and think twice...