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...Bucks on the Pitch Your cover claimed that the story "the Big Score" [May 21] would report "How English football ... took American (and Russian) money ... and built the most popular sports league in the world." That statement smacked of American egocentricity and arrogance, which the whole world is fed up with. As you reported, the Premier League started by making deals with ITV and Sky Sports back in the early 1990s. Real fans loathe the new profiteers, who have a limited knowledge of the game. For a great many fans, following your team means everything, and they fear that...
...Calais' beach is a haven - though, he hopes, a temporary one. Squatting on a 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...
...Calais were widespread and sanitation extremely poor. Yet like Khodadadi, many see Calais as an essential stop in their quest to reach Britain, unquestionably their preferred destination, thanks to the country's ample supply of illegal jobs, relatively liberal immigration laws, large ethnic communities and its use of English, which many of them already speak...
...that subject area. In math, more than 87% of Nebraska primary schoolkids reached their federal goals. Only the subgroup of special education students narrowly missed the targets in reading and math. Among middle schoolers, almost 87% passed in reading and nearly 85% did in math. Special education students and English language learners were the only subgroups in those grades scoring below the federal...
...rapidly on Roatan after Hurricane Mitch in October 1998, when thousands of mainland Hondurans, left homeless and destitute by the storm, moved to Roatan seeking jobs in the tourism and development boom. Unable to find even the most menial employment because they could only speak Spanish (islanders speak both English and Spanish on Roatan), many turned to prostitution, fueling an already burgeoning rate of infection...