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Immigration reform being considered in Congress would give some young illegal aliens a chance to become U.S. citizens by serving in the military.
About 750,000 young people might be eligible under the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors or DREAM act, The Boston Globe reports. The bill would allow those who were under 16 when they arrived in the United States, have a high school diploma and meet some other qualifications, to get on track for citizenship as long as they serve at least two years.
Sudan’s President Field Marshal Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir claimed Tuesday that reports in western newspapers of hundreds of thousands dead in his country’s brutal civil war are all part of an Israeli-led worldwide conspiracy.
“ching chong ching chong” /Rosie
Palo Alto Unified School District can expect to receive $201,418 in federal money to help increase foreign language instruction, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spelling announced today—surprising school officials.
...The grant is part of the federal National Security Language Initiative intended to address the shortage of critical foreign language speakers. The initiative aims to boost the number of Americans studying Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Hindi, Farsi [Korean and Urdu] and others in programs from kindergarten through college.
So what language are they talking about? More Espanglish, right? Creo que no..
… a Mandarin immersion program… [opening with] a kindergarten and a first-grade class in fall 2008
Hunting this I found Mandarin immersion program articles from these other places:
[CA], KY, FL, OR, MA, Canada, OH, MI, MN, WI, ID, CT, NJ.
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the slaughter in Darfur was triggered by global climate change and that more such conflicts may be on the horizon, in an article published Saturday.
Salman Rushdie, who went into hiding under threat of death after an Iranian fatwa, has been knighted by the Queen.
With Hamas forces threatening his life, 49-year-old Abdel Salam Abu Nada took a harrowing journey to safety, dodging Hamas checkpoints, braving Israeli tank fire and crawling the final 300 yards to the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel.
Today, he is among dozens of Fatah leaders holed up at a luxury West Bank hotel, nervously watching events in Gaza and wondering whether they will ever go home again.
They fled as Hamas completed its takeover of the Gaza Strip, routing Fatah-allied security forces in five days of intense fighting. The exodus continued Saturday, with hundreds of people seeking Israel’s permission to cross to the West Bank.
As general manager of Fatah-controlled Palestine TV, Abu Nada said he had long been the target of Hamas harassment.
“Hamas has always targeted me. Once they fired shots at my car. And they wrote on their Web site that I am broadcasting sedition,” he said. Recently, he received an ominous text message on his cell phone: “Your punishment is coming.”
When Hamas seized control of the TV station during the fighting, Abu Nada headed for the West Bank, not even bothering to go home.
To avoid checkpoints set up by Hamas fighters, Abu Nada took back roads. “And since I don’t have permission to enter Israel, in a military area, I found myself crawling on the ground,” he said, pointing to scrapes on his right leg.
With Israeli tanks firing toward him, he said he called an Israeli liaison office and persuaded them to let him cross the border. He slowly crawled to safety.
A Palestinian family walks with their bags as they try to cross to the Israel side at the Erez Crossing, in the northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, June 16, 2007. Dozens of Palestinians converged on the Erez crossing with Israel on Saturday, trying to leave the Gaza Strip following Hamas’ takeover...................
how dare he
Takeover by Hamas Illustrates Failure of Bush’s Mideast Vision
By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 15, 2007; Page A18Five years ago this month, President Bush stood in the Rose Garden and laid out a vision for the Middle East that included Israel and a state called Palestine living together in peace. “I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders, leaders not compromised by terror,” the president declared.
The takeover this week of the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group dedicated to the elimination of Israel demonstrates how much that vision has failed to materialize, in part because of actions taken by the administration. The United States championed Israel’s departure from the Gaza Strip as a first step toward peace and then pressed both Israelis and Palestinians to schedule legislative elections, which Hamas unexpectedly won. Now Hamas is the unchallenged power in Gaza.
After his reelection in 2004, Bush said he would use his “political capital” to help create a Palestinian state by the end of his second term. In his final 18 months as president, he faces the prospect of a shattered Palestinian Authority, a radical Islamic state on Israel’s border and increasingly dwindling options to turn the tide against Hamas and create a functioning Palestinian state.
Failure of Bush’s Mideast Vision.
I thought this was exactly what everyone supporting a Palestinian state was advocating for years??
KILL THE JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS!
Hurry!
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan speaks during a press conference in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Feb. 23, 2007. Sheehan will sell her 5-acre war protest site near President Bush’s Crawford ranch for $87,000 to California radio talk show host Bree Walker who will preserve it as a peace memorial, her spokeswoman said Friday June 8, 2007. She bought the property last year for $52,500.CINDY SHEEHAN IS A WAR PROFITEER
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