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...city center: the Old Town, the Royal Castle and the absurdly outsized Stalin-era Palace of Culture. It's all worthy fare, but for a different take on Poland's buzzing capital, hop over to the right, or eastern, bank of the Vistula River to explore the Praga district. The rough-edged, working-class neighborhood has recently turned into a funky haven for artists and a new focal point for the city's cultural and nightlife...
...costing millions in public funds to monitor and treat groundwater. Pegasus Gold, the Canadian mine operator, which has since filed for bankruptcy, paid no royalties on the gold it extracted from the area, and now the Ft. Belknap Tribes of Montana, whose reservations adjoin the Little Rockies mining district, says its surface waters are showing unacceptable levels of iron, arsenic, zinc and nickel. "Our biggest fear is that the [U.S. Bureau of Land Management] and the state will not have to provide enough money to run ... water-treatment plants after August 2008," says Dean Stiffarm, environmental liaison for the tribes...
...schoolhouse to jailhouse pipeline.” Cohen also testified before the committee. To address these racial disparities, Ogletree suggested the creation of a system that earmarks schools which suspend black students at a disproportionate rate. Ogletree testified alongside Cohen, Rev. Al Sharpton, local U.S. District Attorney Donald W. Washington, and others. Ogletree, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1978, said in an interview that he is often asked for advice on legal issues by committee chairman Rep. John Conyers, Jr. At Harvard, Ogletree is the director of the Houston Institute for Race & Justice, a center focused on resolving...
CORRECTION: The Oct. 22 news article "Students March For Uganda" gave the wrong reason for which School of Public Health student Julian J. Atim received the 2006 Physicians for Human Rights Award. She received the honor for working, not walking, in a Ugandan district...
...Following his defeat in 2003, Jindal ran for and won the congressional seat in Louisiana's first district. Since then, the staunch conservative - who converted from Hinduism to Catholicism as a teenager - has traveled often to northern Louisiana, hitting up churches and pressing the flesh. The strategy appears to have worked, as Jindal handily won the areas he lost to Blanco four years ago and that heavily supported white supremacist David Duke's bid for the governorship in 1991. Perhaps realizing the difficulties of running to lead a state that has by and large elected white males to higher office...