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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."
(Although it's surprising and fascinating to see what's happened to Sandra Day O'Connor and--of all people--David Souter as they've carved out a middle-of-the-road pragmatism no one could ever have predicted.)
He's really running on the idea of helping poor people--"strengthening the weak" and "challenging the strong" and spreading the new stock-market prosperity to the least among us.