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...possibly in the history of the Republican Party, which helps explain why the politics of immigration is becoming so tricky for the G.O.P. The business interests in the party base don't want to disrupt a steady supply of cheap labor for the agriculture, construction, hotel and restaurant industries, among others. That's why business lobbyists broke into applause and embraced in the Dirksen office building as the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12 to 6 to send its bill to the Senate floor, with four of the committee's 10 Republicans joining all its Democrats in favor. So doubtful...
Last spring, the admissions office enlisted more than two dozen female math and science concentrators to call all accepted female students who expressed a strong interest in science on their applications—an effort intended to “make sure we cover every possible base,” Fitzsimmons said at the time...
...Crimson was down 5-4 in the bottom of the seventh inning. The inning began with a ground out to second by Halpenny. Kidder singled to shortstop and advanced to second base on an error. She scored on a single by Murray to tie the game at 5. Junior Sarah Shaughnessy pinch ran for Murray and advanced to second on a single by Adams. Kerper doubled to score Shaughnessy, ending the game...
...folks up the road at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., home of the U.S. Army's top-secret Intelligence Center. The facility, which trains and equips military-intelligence professionals assigned around the world, also happens to be a thoroughfare for illegal aliens and drug smugglers, with mountains on the base providing a safe haven...
...allegations and counter that the images had been staged, no one had heard from the men on the ground who'd stormed the complex, nor from the man the world was being told had been freed. That is until today. In a palace complex deep within a U.S. base, the Iraqi commander who led the raid and the liberated hostage both spoke to TIME, giving their first public accounts of that day's fateful events and largely confirming the U.S. claims...