Word: englands
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...coverage, which now dictates how the game is run. My team, a proud Premiership club with a fan base exceeding 50,000 every home game, would welcome new investment to enable us to fulfill all our dreams. Malcolm Dix, Honorary Vice President, Newcastle United Football Club, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England...
...weathered crate under plastic sheeting, he says: "Welcome. This is my home." If the British government has its way, the young Afghan's home will remain right here - on a patch of scrubland overlooking the English Channel. But Khodadadi has his heart set 34 km across the water in England, where, he says, his brother works in a Birmingham coffee shop and has vowed to find him a job. That his entry and his job will almost certainly be illegal doesn't matter much to him. Lean and athletic, the 23-year-old says he has spent six weeks looking...
...More than four years have passed since British and French officials vowed to prevent illegal immigrants, hailing largely from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran, from sneaking into England from Calais. In late 2002, Nicolas Sarkozy, then France's Interior Minister, ordered shut a Red Cross refugee center in the Calais suburb of Sangatte after British officials complained that thousands were using it as a base to organize crossings to England by jumping on trucks or walking through the Eurotunnel. Sarkozy, whose tough stance against illegal immigration helped build his career and win him the French presidency, claimed that Calais would soon...
...their own way, both sides have proven correct. True to Sarkozy's prediction, only about 1,500 people sneaked into England from Calais last year, compared with more than 10,000 in 2002. Many would-be refugees are now trying to cross from other Channel ports like Dunkirk and Cherbourg...
...long as it is not an official activity that requires unwilling persons to endure it. Lots of praying goes on in schools across the U.S. The problem is not prayer but attempts by some Christians to control everyone else. That leads to theocracy, something the settlers of New England tried and found wanting but that Falwell seems to have thought...