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“If you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they’ve been brought there by no fault of their own, I don’t think you have a heart,” Mr. Perry said.

- Perry’s support of tuition for children of illegals puts him in GOP cross hairs, WashingtonTimes.com, September 23, 2011.

2. On Tuesday, White Sox general manager Ken Williams stood by his comments -- made during a Monday interview with Comcast SportsNet Chicago -- that the possibility of Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols earning $30 million per season would be bad for baseball.

“All I’m interested in is the game,” said Williams, sitting in his golf cart following White Sox workouts at Camelback Ranch. “We’re just caretakers of this game, all of us: you guys, me, the players. We’re caretakers of this game to the next generation. And then the next generation after that.”

Williams, who made clear that his comments were not in any way a shot at Pujols, went on to note past examples of small-market success stories such as the A’s and Reds of the 1970s, the Pirates of the late ’70s and the Royals in the ’80s to support his argument.

“These are all what? They are all small-market teams,” Williams said. “Teams that, at that time, had a fighting chance or greater than a fighting chance because of their expertise, because of their intellect -- how they put together teams.