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...Guided by Editorial Director Mark Siegel, First Second's list is ambitious both in volume and content. Siegel seems to be taking something of a shotgun approach, simultaneously releasing clusters of books aimed at different demographics and interests. Six books are on shelves now, and this Fall will see the release of another half dozen, with plans to release up to 15 titles a year for at least another two years. They plan on establishing a brand through content, design and price. All the books will be paperbacks of a uniform "cargo-pocket" size. They all run at about...
...Core courses,” wrote Clowes Professor of Science Robert P. Kirshner ’70, a CSC member, in an e-mail yesterday morning. “For the Science Core, there’s no ‘loosening’ of requirements or change in approach.” But historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the 300th anniversary University professor and another CSC member, wrote yesterday morning that students “will have lots of new possibilities” for fulfilling history Core requirements next year, as the number of departmental bypasses will be expanded...
...much to the left of Coburn, is an unlikely friend, but the Senate's most famous freshman said his and Coburn's wives became fast friends during the orientation for new senators and their families, and Obama has vocally supported Coburn's spending efforts. "He's fearless in his approach," says Obama. Coburn has also found support from groups like Citizens Against Government Waste and the American Conservative Union, as well as a blog called porkbusters, to which his office is often feeding information about egregious earmarks, in the hopes of stirring opposition in conservative blogs that could embarrass...
...Trabajo! No Falte a la Escuela!" ("Don?t Skip Work! Don?t Skip School!") read flyers plastered up and down Cicero's Cermak Road. Rather than advocating work and spending stoppages or classroom boycotts, as is the case in other cities. Chicago protest leaders are taking a more moderate approach. Sending a united message calling for "fair and reasonable" reform, Chicago area leaders are mobilizing voter registration tables, legalization petitions directed at members of Congress and public demonstrations. Two large marches, one from the north, the other from the south, are scheduled to converge at a huge rally in downtown...
...tests. "Citizenship cannot just be nodded through," she said. In the Netherlands, right-wing Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk stands a very good chance of winning this month's vote for party leader among members of the VVD party, which is part of the governing coalition. Her take-no-prisoners approach to stanching immigration is the main reason for her popularity. Even so, for a Continent whose demographic growth depends increasingly on immigration, creating more obstacles for immigrants may bear heavy costs in the future. And demonstrators who gathered on the weekend in France to protest the new immigration...