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...Soul Asylum...
...Soul Asylum is just as known for its one smash hit, "Runaway Train," as its lead singer, David Pirner, is known for having once dated actress Winona Ryder. At the height of Soul Asylum's popularity, "Runaway Train" was so famous that the band was invited to perform it at the White House for President Clinton. Sadly, after its grand entrance onto the music scene, Soul Asylum has not been able to produce another best-seller: David Pirner and Winona Ryder have long since broken up, and the band seemed to fade into obscurity...
...worked on Nazi codes. Though at the hub of military intelligence, he learned of the Holocaust only as an assistant prosecutor at the first Nuremberg trial. He was chair of the next 12 trials, and his clarity and eloquence (he called Nazi Germany "an infernal combination of a lunatic asylum and a charnel house") led to 142 convictions. Later, as a lawyer and a professor, he scrutinized public officials, and spoke out against McCarthyism and the Vietnam...
Today Meili lives with his wife Giuseppina and their two children in a cramped apartment in West Orange, N.J., courtesy of a Polish-born developer who escaped the Holocaust. "I am the first Swiss person in history to get political asylum," Meili tells his audience here, drawing laughter. (Congress passed special legislation last August granting the Meilis residency.) Other Jewish benefactors have provided furniture, English classes, driving lessons, two 10-year-old cars, the $31,000-a-year doorman job and synagogue schooling for his children, ages five and three. "The Meilis are among the righteous gentiles," says Toby Goldberger...
With the exception of permanent residents and students in the U.S. on special asylum or refugee basis, foreign students are not eligible for federal student loans, making it harder for students in need to finance an American education...