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...machine selections, the Web site said. Jane Kelley, an 18-year veteran of HUDS and the sole employee staffing the Widener Café, said that she decided to accept the University’s early retirement incentive package after administrators finalized plans to close the Café in late April. She added that she understands the University’s rationale for closing the café, which she called a “hidden gem,” but that she is saddened by the move and will miss the students and customers with whom she has built a close...
...trauma of my native state of California has been especially acute and is about to get worse. With housing values falling 40% or more and unemployment at 11.2% as of mid-April and climbing, the State has already suffered through a protracted political standoff between Democratic and Republican lawmakers to plug a $41 billion budget shortfall. The deal that was finally struck will entail many painful cuts. In March, the month after the deal was struck, 27,000 educators received lay-off notices. Moreover, the complicated deal is in large measure contingent upon approval of a series of ballot propositions...
After a deafening roar shook Louisville in mid-April, the basketball-crazy burg is back to a low hum. The big noise arose when University of Louisville coach Rick Pitino released a statement that alleged he was the subject of an extortion attempt. It persisted for nearly a week, until Karen Sypher was charged in federal court with extortion and lying to the FBI. She was indicted...
...case has most Louisville fans buzzing and worried that they may lose their marquee coach. And it coincides with some interesting basketball developments. In early April, one of Pitino's longtime coaching rivals, John Calipari, was hired by the University of Kentucky. Also last month, Pitino's son Richard, who'd been on the Louisville staff, left to join Billy Donovan's staff at the University of Florida...
...surge of violence in Iraq hasn't changed the Obama Administration's plans to withdraw American troops from the country, it has certainly forced many Iraqi refugees to put off plans to return to the country. A series of bombings across Iraq in April killed more than 200, the highest monthly body count in roughly a year. Andrew Harper, head of the Iraq Support Unit created by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told TIME that the rate of refugee return slowed dramatically in April. And a "significant number" of returnees have turned around and fled the country again...