Once, they were a prized catch. Men who had everything an Indian woman wanted: a job, a house and a life of comfort in faraway lands. They had studied hard and landed top jobs in the West.
The White House did not intend to show any disrespect toward Nancy Reagan when it failed to invite the former first lady — a vigorous supporter of stem-cell research — to a bill-signing ceremony on the subject, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday.