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...rest of the campus wouldn't learn much either. Before the e-mail announcing the first shooting even went out at 9:30 a.m, groups of students around campus were passing rumors about what had taken place at West AJ. Some thought it was a drug bust. Others were repeating the line that the police were pursuing, saying that some guy killed his girlfriend...
...years, many Saint-Gilles residents have been transfixed by a central issue: immigration. In the 1960s and '70s, Saint-Gilles's agricultural sector recruited armies of foreign workers until the growth boom went bust in the early 1980s. Jobs here and across France have been in short supply ever since. Nearly 20% of Saint-Gilles's residents are jobless, and practically all of those live on state assistance. Roughly 25% of the town's population of nearly 12,000 are immigrant or first-generation French citizens--virtually all of North African origin. Most live in the Sabatot housing projects uphill...
...first things you notice when you walk into the Tam Binh orphanage's reception area is a shrine on the back wall with a large, gold-colored bust of Ho Chi Minh, communist Vietnam's founding father, with a golden hammer-and-sickle hung on the wall behind him. But in a corner across from Uncle Ho's bust, there is a more discreet homage: a photo-copy of a Vietnamese magazine spread featuring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt taped to the wall next to one of the office's three wooden desks. The article features photos from the couple...
...even try to change the world by lending as little as $25 to a Third World entrepreneur through kiva.org If the loan goes bust and ends up a gift, at least it went to something worthwhile--kind of like that bad loan to your kids...
From its founding in 1986, the Tom Peters Co., based in Cincinnati, Ohio, waxed and waned with business cycles, with Peters promoting the company at varying levels of intensity. After the dotcom bust, Peters' high-risk, big-payoff consulting projects, which preached blowing up business-as usual, were less in vogue. The bulk of the company's business was in its safer leadership training, mostly using non-Peters material that emphasized behavioral assessment and leadership preparation. In 2004, Peters, who had moved his personal life from California to Vermont, decided that "it was silly to have a company in Cincinnati...