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After her year with Americorps, Woo, then 21, began taking the train from her Lexington apartment to Bunker Hill Community College, using funding from One Family Scholars, which provides homeless or formerly homeless women with scholarships to use education as a path out of poverty...
...Bunker Hill, with many other student mothers, provided Woo with something of a social support system, she said...
...with empty bookshelves. On it was that famous [Heinrich] Heine quote, 'Where they burn books, they will end up burning people.' It was the monument to the 1933 book burnings. I looked up and saw I was surrounded by Frederick the Great's Neoclassical buildings. Nearby were Hitler's bunker and the old Jewish synagogue. I was at the center of world history. I wanted to learn more...
...seen how many more State Department employees sign on. But Deputy Chief of Mission in Baghdad Patricia Butenis, who oversees embassy staffing, says widespread perceptions about life in Iraq do not match reality. Some seem to think that life at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad is a bunker existence. To be sure, rockets and mortars have fallen in the Green Zone, and at least three State Department employees have died in Iraq. But, according to embassy officials, diplomats in Iraq head for cement bunkers less often lately, thanks to a drop in violence around Baghdad and elsewhere in the country...
...Defcon 1: Global Thermonuclear War. OK, it's not that bad. But unlike Defcon 2, no punches are pulled: the attacks go beyond dismantling an opponent's record and take on a nasty tone of derision. Right now, these rhetorical bunker-busters are mainly directed across the aisle - at front-runners in the other party in order to bolster one's own partisan bona fides. At the last Democratic debate, Joe Biden said that Rudy Giuliani was "the most uninformed person on American foreign policy now running for President." And in a blisteringly partisan speech to the Young Republican National...