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...Europeans landed in Ireland. Low-cost flights to Dublin from Katowice, Cracow and Wroclaw were jammed for months. Newspapers sprang up to serve the new arrivals; bulletin boards outside churches across Ireland advertised for laborers with many of the notices written in Polish. In one English county, officials have begun adding road signs in Polish because immigrant truck drivers were getting confused...
Young Heroes is based on the idea that no one is too young to make a positive difference in the world around him or her, and that service, if begun early, can become a life-long commitment. "Middle school is a crucial time in life. You are making a lot of decisions about what kind of person you are going to be," says Vera Garrity, 24, a Young Heroes and City Year alumna now in her second year at the University of Virginia Law School. "After being in City Year, no matter what I do, I will always do service...
While increasing the band will solve the issue for the current year, committee members said it had begun working toward a more long term solution, anticipating that new families to the system would continue to be more affluent than their predecessors...
Witnesses say they informed IRS investigators that Gerber had begun storing cash in dormant bank accounts that were unlikely to be examined during a routine audit. Money transfers out of the university system were masked by fictional purchases of equipment. One piece of machinery was billed at $500,000, despite the fact that the top of the line in its category costs $60,000. The person for whom the equipment was ordered never received it. The department regularly processed reimbursements for conferences that never existed. The department was able to get away with the irregularities because...
Fort Campbell is a long way from the island in the Thar Thar Canal, north of Baghdad. But a court-martial at the U.S. military base, which straddles Kentucky and Tennessee, has begun to examine in detail what happened in that Iraqi locale in May 2006, with polarizing consequences for the way Americans perceive the way the war is being waged...