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Whenever I put in a good word for the global economy--pointing out that international trade is not the source of all misfortunes, or that low-wage exporting benefits many poor people--I can count on receiving a pile of hate mail.
In 1996, 596,000 people--65 percent of all green-card recipients--were "family-sponsored immigrants."
The Times off-leads another New York story: The city's just-identified mosquito-borne West Nile virus has stricken nearly twice as many people--37--and over a much wider area than was previously thought.
Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, condemning the United States and saying he was "astonished" that nobody considered the sufferings of the Iraqi people--"[a]nd the UN, remember, was an institution created to protect the people."
The story observes that about the same number of people--300--are killed every year in police chases as in police shootings, which of course makes "Today's Papers" wonder why the law should treat reckless police driving differently than reckless police shooting.