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  • Mexican American takes on illegal immigrants

    06/27/2005 12:09:40 AM PDT · by Victoria_R · 13 replies · 2,935+ views
    Chicago Sun Times ^ | June 26, 2005 | Rebecca Boone
    Canyon County Commissioner Robert Vasquez entered the race for Congress this month in characteristically provocative fashion, making the announcement at a Mexican restaurant that shares a building with the Idaho Migrant Council -- one of his more vocal opponents. ''My people -- as I'm often accused of turning my back on them -- my people are American. I've got an American flag hanging in my office, not the Mexican chicken-and-worm or whatever it is,'' Vasquez said in a swipe at the eagle-and-snake emblem on the Mexican flag.
  • The Daily Show with Hillary Clinton?!

    08/13/2003 12:42:45 AM PDT · by Victoria_R · 3 replies · 140+ views
    The Daily Show Newsletter ^ | August 12, 2003 | Dave
    I received my _The Daily Show with Jon Stewart_ e-mail newsletter this morning and this was the schedule for the rest of the week: Coming up on TDS! This Week: Tuesday: Kim Cattrall Wednesday: Paul Giamatti Thursday: Hillary Clinton
  • Game show where jobs are prizes

    08/15/2002 1:36:01 AM PDT · by Victoria_R · 2 replies · 74+ views
    The Daily Telegraph ^ | August 15, 2002
    IN Argentina, where one in five people is unemployed, one game show host doesn't ask, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" Instead, the question is more mundane: "Who wants a job?" One of the country's top-rated programs, Human Resources is a game show that reveals how far the one-time richest economy in South America has fallen. In the midst of a four-year slump that has battered the peso and pushed half of Argentina's 34 million people into poverty, it offers its two contestants a shot at a job.