In recent months, scenes of surprise immigration raids and arrests have become daily news, and Mexican communities in Chicago and Los Angeles have been notable targets. But, argues historian Irvin Ibarguen in Made by History, Mexican immigration has historically proceeded from an invitation extended by the United States—contrary to Trump Administration arguments that there exists an immigrant "invasion" that must be met with brutal force. In fact, for two decades after World War II, the U.S. federal government insisted on access to Mexican migrants as its laborers of choice, even when the Mexican government questioned whether the arrangement served its goals. Immigrants and the work they performed benefited the United States, but few Americans today have any memory of the invitation that brought some four million Mexicans to the country between 1942 and 1964.
"Britain's House of Windsor is under fire in 1992 as it has not been since 1936, the year Edward VIII abdicated the throne. The notion of the family monarchy, a Victorian-era invention that accorded a symbolic and public role to royal offspring and consorts as well as to the crown, is on the brink of collapse. None of the four children of Queen Elizabeth II has been able to sustain a stable marriage…The scandal over Diana's secretly taped phone coos to a friend has been overshadowed by reports of a steamy conversation between Prince Charles and a longtime companion. And now, in what may be the severest blow of all, Diana and Charles seem ready to resign themselves to living separate lives, maintaining their marriage in name only."
"The director readily admits that of his three films, Two Towers departs most from Tolkien's work. 'We were aware that we were making films for the hard-core Tolkien fan base as well as everyone else,' says Jackson, who co-wrote the script with Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh. 'In the beginning, it was a difficult tightrope to walk, but then we sort of abandoned thinking about it. If we make a good film, we'll be forgiven, whatever the crimes we commit to the book.' Arwen, the beautiful elf played by Liv Tyler, doesn't appear in the book. But in the film, Jackson has love scenes between her and Aragorn–a romance based on an appendix that Tolkien later wrote about their doomed relationship."
This week in 2014: Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game
The Dec. 1-8, 2014, cover of TIME
Dan Winters for TIME
TIME: Were you into computers as a kid? Not necessarily to the extent of Turing or Hawking–just in general.
Cumberbatch: I was a little bit, but not to any level of expertise. I wrote programs on BBC computers. We had computing lessons where you'd actually write coded commands to create programs to play little games or build up a Christmas tree on a BBC computer. But computers were more interesting to me when you could put a little packet in them and protect the world from nuclear strike on an Atari console or a Commodore 64. [I also liked] the little Nintendo, the handheld Donkey Kong Jr. things. And then I was always into the Sega Game Gear. That was my real interest in computing–having fun with games.
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