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Ashcroft did not argue that Joseph was in any way linked to terrorism. Instead, Ashcroft insisted that granting Joseph bond "would tend to encourage further surges of mass migration from Haiti by sea, with attendant strains on national and homeland-security resources." In other words, patrolling the U.S. coastline to keep out illegal aliens diverts Coast Guard and immigration officials from other duties. Ashcroft also argued that Haiti was a route through which Pakistanis and Palestinians might try to enter the U.S. illegally...
...female" professions tend to offer more flexible hours. Ron Patrizio, 43, a biotech-firm sales rep in Central Florida, got sick of his old routine. He spent much of his time wining and dining doctors, hoping they would prescribe his firm's drugs. He made as much as $67,000 a year, and constantly accompanied clients to operas and hockey games. "But you have no life," he says. "You live and die by how many vials of insulin you sell that month. They expected you to schmooze 24-7." On a whim, he took a class in massage therapy...
...aisles of health-food stores are well stocked with healthy snack products, but they tend to taste distinctly, well, healthy. Not much of a treat there. And sometimes they aren't as healthy as they seem. Many dieters were enraged last year when it was discovered that Robert's American Gourmet had mislabeled its popular all-natural Pirate's Booty snack products, suggesting they were healthier and lower in calories than they actually were...
...club might have had an impact on the way she was received,” says Mary Kate Richey ’03, a friend of Lee’s and a former council member. “Usually people who are in the UC don’t tend to be the same as the people who are in social clubs on campus...
Unlike other Ivy League squads that tend to be predominantly right-handed and therefore more likely to attack from the right side, the Big Red features both left- and right-handed attackers, preventing opponents from cheating to cut off an advance along the right side...