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The idea was to give highly-skilled foreign workers in “specialty occupations” the right to three years of U.S. residence renewable for a further three years — an opportunity to obtain permanent residency or even citizenship.

Burton had no idea this exchange was taking place but said he has had numerous encounters over the last few years in which strangers approach him and insisted they have been chatting.

In the private marketplace of ideas, he argued, an employee can be summarily fired if the boss doesn’t like it.

From Salon

But in Nixon’s wake, partisan media activists like former Fox News executive Roger Ailes and radio host Rush Limbaugh continued to popularize the idea of “liberal media bias” within the conservative movement.

From Salon

For decades, football sold us the idea that greatness came through sacrifice and humility.

From BBC

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