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Lingle initially seemed to tolerate the occupation, which began on April 7. But sheriff's deputies quickly began issuing trespassing citations to protesters. Some got multiple citations, particularly for staying on the premises after office hours. Then, during a press conference at her office on Wednesday, April 14, the governor...
The furloughs were announced Sept. 21 as part of a contract settlement between the state and its public teachers' union, the Hawaii State Teachers Association. The furloughs have proved a hardship for parents who, with family budgets already constrained by the recession, can't afford day-care costs of $25...
While the governor's office became the stage for much of the drama, state lawmakers worked to fund the education budget in order to do away with the furloughs. But negotiations that involved the governor, the teachers' union and the state board of education have gone nowhere. At one point...
For decades the word Katyn, for the Poles, has stood for an unspeakable crime as well as tragedy. Henceforth, it will stand also for an additional national disaster - but perhaps also for hope.
In the past, Katyn signified mass murder committed in 1940 in a forest just west of the Russian town of Smolensk by troops of the Soviet Union, who killed defenseless Polish prisoners of war. The victims of the atrocity accounted for much of Poland's military as well as intellectual...