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...opulent dormitories or state of the art science facilities. So while we remain enthusiastic about the University’s projects and what they mean for future students, in the meantime, University Hall, don’t forget about colonies of cockroaches living under the floorboards or the hail that makes it through our chimnies...
...shopped for a wedding dress at Filene’s Basement in downtown Boston, her mother back in Guatemala sent invitations for her daughter to approve. The two were preparing for Boehms’ upcoming wedding in Guatemala, an affair in which the 12 bridesmaids will hail from all over the world—Alabama, Cuba and Puerto Rico, Germany, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, Montenegro, and Peru. Boehm, 24, will wed Christian Móller, 32, on Sept. 6, two years after they met through mutual friends. Soon after meeting, they discovered that their German immigrant grandmothers knew each other...
...Desperate times beget desperate measures, and this is in the Hail Mary category.' RICK SEANEY, CEO of Farecompare.com an airline-ticket research site, on American Airlines' decision to charge $15 per checked bag to fight soaring fuel costs...
...Many Sinaloans hail the traffickers as heroes, saying they have fought hard to bring wealth to the hardscrabble region, and crediting them with helping the poor by rebuilding houses, buying medicine and handing out extravagant Christmas gifts. Their exploits are celebrated in song in narco corridos or drug ballads, which are banned on radio and television but are immensely popular on the street, where the gunslingers are often referred to valientes, or brave ones - and stores with names like "Mafia Clothes" sell gold chains of Kalashnikov rifles to heavily armed men in alligator-skin boots who drive huge, gleaming pickups...
...great majority of America's Chinese restaurant workers hail from Fujian province, which Lee visits. In one village, Houyu, she finds that more than three-quarters of the village population has left to work in restaurants in the U.S. One school even teaches "restaurant English" to students hoping to go abroad. Once in the U.S., Lee explains, many Chinese restaurant workers pass through New York City's Chinatown, where employment agencies field calls from Chinese restaurants around the country and send workers onto buses with scraps of paper bearing three numbers like this: "$2,400, 440 near Cleveland, 10 hours...