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That's not the way Michael O'Reilly, mayor of Herndon, sees it. O'Reilly had been receiving increasing citizen complaints about crowds of up to 100 illegal immigrants congregating on a conspicuous corner in front of a 7-Eleven, where locals in need of day labor knew they could go and pick up a worker or two. O'Reilly created a day-labor center, which cleared the sidewalk and created jobs. No sooner did he do that, however, than Herndon resident George Taplin, a software engineer and Navy veteran who is the local leader of the Minutemen, began organizing...
...once phoned Magid in the middle of the night to ask if he could perform a marriage in a parking lot "right now" so the suitor and the woman in his car wouldn't feel guilty about what they wanted to do next. "I'm not a 7-Eleven," the imam barked into the phone. To help with romances, Magid and his wife run a matchmaking service, holding daylong retreats at which young Muslim men and women can mix under the watchful eye of chaperones...
...THES. Yale and Princeton, ranked seventh and ninth respectively, were the only other Ivy League institutions to crack the top 10, which also included Cal Tech and France’s Ecole Polytechnique. Duke University rose from 52nd last year to tie the London School of Economics at number eleven this year. Martin J. Ince, a contributing editor at THES and the coordinator of the rankings, said that does not foresee Harvard’s dominance of the list coming to an end any time soon. “Harvard came in this year by a bigger margin than...
Like many folks with grandkids at a distance, Michael Harbater, 55, had a hunger to know those little people better--and to have them know him. But for the retailer from New York City, it was hard. Eleven of his 16 grandchildren lived in Israel, and when he did see them, he laments, "they didn't exactly jump into...
...Eleven hundred miles away, as he celebrated with his team in Houston's Minute Maid Park, Sox GM Kenny Williams wiped champagne from his eyes and told a reporter that the Sox win "has finally taken a lot of weight off my shoulders." That was an understatement: all of Chicago set down a heavy burden-the weight of 88 years of history. On Thursday morning the city's two daily newspapers both had special issues on newsstands with headlines shouting "Believe It!" and "Champs...