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...life as a black man embracing the American Dream. Steele's simplistic labels ("bargainers" and "challengers") disregard the subtleties we employ to navigate our way through the racial land mines of mainstream America. Perhaps he is the one who needs labels and identity cards to know who he is. Preston Foster, Lawrenceville...
...illustrate the human toll of the immigration debate, New York Times reporter Julia Preston described devastating raids on meatpacking plants in Marshalltown, Iowa that ended with the deportation of hundreds of workers back to Mexico. Preston, who is the national immigration correspondent for The Times, spoke yesterday afternoon about policy concerns with illegal immigration and its social impact as part of “¡México Hoy!”, a David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies series on U.S.-Mexico relations. Titled “Where There Are Mexicans, There Is Mexico: Mexican Immigrants...
...Americans on the team, the Crimson has a lot more depth in its starting lineup this season than last. Freshmen Shay Warren and Dan Kelly will bolster the starting spot at 125 lb., and five wrestlers, including Olsen, are set to compete at 174 lb. Co-captain Robbie Preston, who is taking the semester off, will return to the team in the spring. “This is a very special group with a lot of chemistry,” Weiss said. “It’s going to be a fun year as long as we stay...
...just drop it. "It was pooh-poohed by everybody," he says. "I am obstinate. I kept on drawing these squares: Well, if you have this number of people, you take that money, you move it there, couldn't that work? Let's do the math." State HHS secretary Ron Preston kept coming back to the one alternative Romney said he wouldn't accept: Dukakis' approach of requiring employers to either cover their workers or pay a hefty fee. "We didn't make as much progress as I wanted to," Romney says now. So the former management consultant did what...
...himself out of power - and later, in 1981, by courageously appearing on the floor of Congress to disavow an attempted military coup. "Juan Carlos played such a sterling role during the Transition [to democracy] that it basically shelved questions about the nature of the new political regime," says Paul Preston, professor of Spanish history at the London School of Economics and author of a biography of the King. Since then, the royal family has dedicated itself largely to charity drives, hospital inaugurations, and promoting Spanish interests abroad...