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An expert predicts that the research could relegate today's Native Americans to "just another Ellis Island group" and threaten their hard-won legal rights.
Weak economy, court challenge threaten legal services' funding
The scenarios, in order of ascending cynicism: 1) The ethnic Albanians will approve the deal, enabling NATO to threaten Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic with bombing unless he goes along.
But the Kurds are too busy fighting one another to threaten Saddam.
Didn't Bill Clinton champion the very "new economy" of rootless, skilled free-agents--the very disloyal types Gates claims threaten to subject the president to the laws that apply to other Americans?