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Although California's G.O.P. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called those declarations "a terrific idea," such bipartisan--or even intraparty--consensus is eluding leaders in Congress as they head for a fierce debate over the issue this fall. As border-state Democrats start to shift to the right, bucking many members of their own party, the G.O.P. is split between those who want tougher security first and those who seek comprehensive reform. That split is spelled out in two competing Senate proposals: one sponsored by Texas' John Cornyn and fellow Republican Jon Kyl of Arizona would require illegals to leave the country...
...14th century. My friends and I drank in college in the 1960s--sometimes a lot but not so much that we had to be hospitalized. Veteran college administrators cite a sea change in campus culture that began, not without coincidence, in the 1990s. It was marked by a shift from beer to hard liquor, consumed not in large social settings, since that is now illegal, but furtively and dangerously in students' residences...
...Spanish language TV is a force to be reckoned with, and its inclusion in a mainstream comedy film is a clear signal of its arrival as a player in American media. It is also a subtle reminder that the United States is in the midst of a socio-cultural shift that goes far beyond the fact that Univision, Telemundo, and other foreign language networks like them, have entered the national consciousness...
...Rockower strongly suggests homeowners with adjustable-rate mortgages who plan on staying in their current residence shift now to a fixed rate. "Anybody who doesn't have a fixed-rate loan is an idiot," she says. And, if you're holding onto real estate strictly as an investment, she believes it's probably the right time to cash in. It's not just rate hikes that concern Rockower. "Interest rates don't have to go up one dime for the market to collapse," she says. "All those teaser rates and no-money-down deals that people used to buy property...
...biggest achievement has been at home: Administration officials say Rice has seized the policymaking initiative from hawks close to Cheney and Rumsfeld. "She has recentered American foreign policy in the State Department," says Burns. That shift has been most evident in the Administration's policy toward North Korea. Although Rice is known to have expressed skepticism that Kim Jong Il is prepared to give up his nuclear arsenal in exchange for promises of aid and trade, she nonetheless secured White House approval to allow Christopher Hill, the U.S. envoy to the six-party negotiations with Pyongyang, to exchange views with...