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...Ghungroo 2007” was a great achievement, both as a display of cultural traditions and of students getting together to put on a good show. The qualities of professionalism and human accessibility combined to joyous effect in the final number, the Senior Dance, choreographed by seven seniors and featuring the dancing talents of an enormous crowd of senior Ghungroo participants...
...election effect alone is not enough to deliver Bush the votes he needs, though, especially in the House. Privately, lawmakers and key aides in both parties are skeptical that he can make up those votes. Republicans say Bush's political weakness is too great to coerce enough wavering G.O.P. lawmakers to risk their seats out of loyalty to the President. "What leverage does he have? Not a lot," says a senior Senate Republican aide. Bush's influence has ebbed since the last Congress, when he failed to rally Republicans behind an immigration deal. Democrats say Bush's biggest problem...
...have come thanks to G.O.P. hard-liners. The only immigration bill that Congress managed to push through last session cracked down on illegal border crossing. At the same time, the Department of Homeland Security has stepped up work-site enforcement of laws banning the employment of illegal immigrants. The effect has been a marked labor shortage, especially in agriculture. Growers nationwide blame the shortage for losses in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. With business leaning on lawmakers to do something, the crackdown has "increased the chances of comprehensive immigration reform," says a senior Senate Republican aide...
...scrutinized. Given the financial struggle that FAS currently finds itself in, it retains as much of the annual tuition increase that it can to help address the FAS budget deficit. In this way, FAS limits the amount of any increase that is passed on directly the College. The net effect is a lack of funding for numerous student life initiatives, including the HUDS meal plan. In the past years, fuel prices and labor wages have risen dramatically but FAS has been unwilling to increase HUDS’s portion of the tuition to account for this, resulting...
These men’s views may seem far from those held by most Jews, or by most critically thinking individuals for that matter. Yet, both Weiss and Finkelstein play on their Jewish backgrounds to draw attention to their fringe opinions. By doing so, they become, in effect, traveling sideshows, "iconoclastic" anti-Jewish Jews, of interest only to groups seeking to delegitimize Israel...