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...Reid ditched his Republican counterpart Bill Frist at the altar Friday, blocking the bi-partisan bill he had backed the day before. Stunned Senators headed to their home states for a two-week Easter recess, furious over the break-up. ?It's a war,? said Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter. Even members of Reid's own party, most notably Senator Ted Kennedy, who had worked for five years on an effective amnesty for the country's millions of illegal immigrants, was said to be furious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Immigration Deal Flopped | 4/7/2006 | See Source »

...Vinci Code” is eminently intriguing not because of the color-by-numbers plot or the clichéd characters, but because of the haunting specter of truth that Brown skillfully creates by melding fiction and nonfiction into an indeterminate alloy...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bestseller: The Da Vinci Code | 4/4/2006 | See Source »

...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 had been the outcome that there were gasps in the hearing room when Republican chairman Arlen Specter cast the final vote for it himself, giving the legislation extra momentum as it heads to the floor. But those same business interests had lost badly in the House, where social conservatives argued that illegal immigration has begun an uncontrolled demographic and cultural transformation of the country, threatening its values...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should They Stay Or Should They Go? | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

...GRAND REFORM Arlen Specter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Proposals | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

...Large portions of a bill introduced by Senators Edward Kennedy and John McCain last year were incorporated into this one, now named for Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Proposals | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

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