¿Ejemplos?, hay muchos, pero mejor le comento lo que está pasando con los empresarios del campo en el sur de California. «Estamos desesperados», me confesó esta semana Manuel Cunha, presidente de una importante agrupación de granjeros estadounidenses llamada Nisei Farmers League. «Si no se llega pronto a un Acuerdo Migratorio y si no terminan de inmediato las redadas, muchos de nosotros vamos a ir directo a la quiebra». «Ya no hay gente en los campos que levante las cosechas». En el Valle de San Joaquín, por ejemplo, casi la tercera parte de los 230 mil trabajadores de la «pizca» han sido deportados o prefieren irse a otras partes donde no los aprieten las garras de la «Migra». Para los ultraconservadores y los grupos antiinmigrantes, es muy fácil alzar la voz y condenar todo aquello qu...
While Gov. CL. "Butch" Otter called for a "no-growth budget" next year, most agencies will see their new suggested funding level as a cut. The agencies listed above may view the cut as a form of state-sanctioned hara-kiri. Otter also announced what he continually calls "consolidations" of state agencies, stating that we must avoid any "duplication of effort" or "inefficiency." What that boils down to is a four-year phase-out program for the group of agencies mentioned above that Otter said, in a not-so-veiled sleight, have "similar clientele" and "can rely on federal grants." The agencies include the Idaho Human Rights Commission, the Idaho Commission on Hispanic Affairs, Idaho Public Television, the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Council and others.
For seniors with mobility issues, or who might be too advanced in years to sprint around a tennis court, Wii Sports is the perfect way to stay moving, says [Holly Sullivan]. She's a proponent of offering seniors a variety of activities, from computer classes to mosaic making, that help keep them spry. Not only is Wii good for them physically, she says, it's good for their brains as well. "Learning new skills is really important as you get older," Sullivan says. "Wii keeps your cognitive level functioning, and it's a lot of fun. You'll learn how to finesse it," [Bob Fountain] says encouragingly. In our first game, I end up 14 over par, a score that would make a respectable golfer commit hara-kiri on the green. Fountain makes par. "People think it's really easy, but it's not," he says i...
CAN Naoto Kan, Japan's new Prime Minister, survive amidst growing problems? YUKIO HATOYAMA LED HIS Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) to victory amidst great fanfare last August. Nine months later he was ousted, not by his own party, but by his own people. They'd had a gutful of his backpedaling. Worse, Hatoyama knew he was committing political hara-kiri when he reneged on his campaign promise to force the American navy to quit Okinawa. Instead, Hatoyama caved in to pressure from Washington to relocate the US naval base to another part of the island. At end-May the Social Democrats, Hatoyama's coalition partner, withdrew its support and raised the specter of censuring Hatoyama in the Diet. On June 2, Hatoyama quit.
Congress has long had a knack for micromanaging national security policy into unworkable programs. But hara-kiri seems to be the latest fad for some congressional masochists. Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair was America's most loyal ally when President Bush decided to invade Iraq with a view to regime change. He risked his political career, battled his own hostile Labor Party and dispatched to Iraq the second-largest contingent of troops after the U.S. Republican senators decided this was worthy of tangible recognition. Britain and Australia were to be exempt from State Department rules requiring that U.S. companies get special licenses for exporting unclassified military technologies.
The smell of ethics violations of the young Obama administration has apparently finally reached such a stench that the latest nominee, former Sen. Majority Leader Tom Daschle, either committed hara kiri or was pushed on his sword. A number of people who may be ethics-challenged have already been or are close to being confirmed thanks to "waiver provisions" that President Barack Obama allowed. But, after the president had passed absolution on Mr. Daschle to serve in his cabinet - a man who by his own admission did not pay $128,000 in federal taxes - the uproar caused Mr. Daschle to withdraw Tuesday as nominee for health and human services secretary. The man whom Mr. Obama said on Monday he would "absolutely" support was toast on Tuesday. Mr. Daschle proved to be a true limousine liberal;...
... will affect their reputation can be career hara-kiri. . Extended effects . Some organizations, how...
LOS ANGELES - In the late afternoon of April 12, 32-year-old Nguyen Tran of North Hollywood, Calif., stepped into a KFC near downtown Los Angeles. After a few minutes of scrutinizing the menu board, and glancing at the store's signage, he leaned across the counter and asked the man behind the counter, in an almost conspiratorial voice: "Do you guys have that ... you know ... the Double Down?
... population appear to be bent on committing hara-kiri by hamburger?. Poke around the Internet to lo...
In response to Deborah Simmons' "Is America there yet?" (Op-Ed, Monday): Most readers would have to look very hard to learn about Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's speech responding - in Spanish - to President Bush's State of the Union address. However, our ATMs have Spanish instructions now, and we have to "Press 1 for English" when we call our doctor or dentist. Our schools, welfare offices and hospitals increasingly are required to offer translation services in a mind-boggling array of exotic languages - usually at great expense to poor Joe Taxpayer. It won't be long before there is agitation to publish the Congressional Record in foreign languages. Don't laugh - same-sex marriage and polygamy are inevitable, so this can't be far behind. My wife and I talk about this often - t...
THE LATE Sid Oman, who served as mayorof both Chesapeake and Elizabeth City, always disliked the idea of party politics at the local level. Watching the head-bumping in Washington, I wish there was no such thing as political parties period. I know that's impractical. Parties are necessary machinery for candidates and elections. But, from where I sit, party members march in absolute lockstep. The other guy's idea, no matter how good, will shatter the foundations of the republic. My side's right and your side's wrong, whenever and whatever.
... the Byrd pasture was committing political hara-kiri. And the notions of rural Virginia ruled the ...
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