BOSTON ---- Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes used to say that of all the regions of the United States, his countrymen identified most with the South. Fuentes is a friend, but having grown up largely in Georgia, I always found his comparison odd: The South is probably the American region that…
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BOSTON ---- I was 21 and had just graduated from Vanderbilt University. I didn't agree with the war we were fighting in Vietnam then, and I was scared of dying there, but I marched into the recruitment office in Nashville to join the Army.
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BOSTON ---- Adults learn that human conflicts are seldom black and white. So the way the international community jumped to punish tiny Honduras for the ouster of its president, without knowing the facts, was foolish.
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By all indicators, Raquel Torres should be cleaning houses. And that's only if she had stayed out of a drug gang.
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NEW LONDON, Conn. ---- In the early 1990s, sociologist Alejandro Portes and a group of colleagues began an ambitious project of following the progress of 5,200 children of foreign-born immigrants.
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BOSTON ---- The end may be in sight for Lou Dobbs on CNN, and it couldn't come too soon. There won't be much reason to cheer, however.
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BOSTON ---- As lawmakers close in on a health care reform package, perhaps they should include a few extra dollars for bandaging the holes they are shooting in their feet. All our feet.
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BOSTON ---- Nations should beware what they ask for, because they might get it. Brazil has been aspiring to be the leader in Latin America and now finds itself way out in front regarding Honduras.
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BOSTON ---- Fifty years from now, when scholars dissect the debate over the health care reform effort of 2009, they are likely to move beyond the ideological battles and focus on an issue that grew out of our diversity as a people.
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BOSTON ---- The new truth about illegal immigration is that enforcement is working. It is time to give up the fight between pro-immigrant activists who never see an enforcement measure they like and opponents who refuse to recognize that government works.
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BOSTON ---- Barack Obama won the presidency with 67 percent of the Latino vote. It's payback time, and many Hispanic and immigrant groups are demanding immigration reform this year. Some are taking to the streets to protest, as they did during the George W. Bush years.
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CARTAGENA, Colombia ---- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is a liar and a troublemaker. Congressmen and columnists can say this, but President Barack Obama is correct not do so, even though his critics want a tougher U.S. policy against the Venezuelan.
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BARRANQUILLA, Colombia ---- A pending agreement that supposedly would create seven American military bases in Colombia has provoked a misguided hemispheric furor behind which lie many culprits. Among them are Colombian foolishness, American missteps, Brazilian ambition, Venezuelan provoca…
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BOSTON ---- Lou Dobbs is unique in cable television news as both an emblem and an exception. For American democracy, neither is good.
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BOSTON -- Jimmy Slaughter and his wife, Sheila, were folding laundry last summer in their Yuma, Ariz., home when the knock came at the door. Seven uniformed federal agents with vests and guns stood outside.
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