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The abolition of female genital mutilation has become a worldwide human rights cause -Borgna Brunner In 1994, when a 17-year-old girl from Togo sought asylum in the United States to escape…Elaine Chao, 2001 News
conservative commentator, withdrew her name as President Bush's nominee for secretary of labor in January, after it was revealed that she had sheltered and provided financial assistance to…Maria Hsia, 2000 News
political fund-raiser and immigration consultant, was convicted in March on five felony counts of illegally arranging more than $100,000 in contributions to the Democratic Party during the…Charles Schwarz, 1997 News
Haitian immigrant brutalized by the New York City police when he was arrested outside a Brooklyn nightclub. Officers Thomas Wiese, Thomas Bruder, Justin Volpe, and Charles Schwarz were…Amadou Diallo, 1999 News
22, West African immigrant, was shot 19 times in February in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment by four plainclothes police officers. Diallo, a street peddler, was unarmed. The officers,…The Devil's Dictionary: Imbecility
by Ambrose Bierce IMAGINATIONIMMIGRANTIMBECILITY -n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.State of the Union Address: Dwight D. Eisenhower (January 5, 1956)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (January 5, 1956) To the Congress of the United States: The opening of this new year must arouse in us all grateful thanks to a kind Providence whose protection has been ever…Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon, Kenneth Boss, and Richard Murphy, 2000 News
New York City plainclothes police officers who faced trial on charges of second-degree murder for showering with 41 bullets unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo, were acquitted of…Luis Posada Carriles, 2005 News
Cuban exile and suspected terrorist, was arrested by U.S. immigration officials in May and charged with illegal entry. He is suspected of masterminding the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airplane…Hawaii
Hawaii State Information Capital: Honolulu (on Oahu) Official Name: Hawaii Organized as territory/republic: Republic, 1893; Territory, 1900 Entered Union (rank): August 21, 1959 (50th state)…Trending
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