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John Hirschbeck has been an umpire in the American League for more than a decade. Well-respected by his peers and players alike, he has dealt with his share of hardship. His 11-year-old son died several years ago of a congenital neurological disorder, and his only living son is similarly afflicted...
Still, a bittersweet humor persists in the heartland, even in towns that have known hardship, like Harvard. Williamson, the principal, was born in Oxford, Neb., and has lived throughout the state. "I tell people I was born in Oxford and educated at Harvard," he says, chuckling. "That's one for the books...
Still, a bittersweet humor persists in the heartland, even in towns that have known hardship, like Harvard. Willamson, the principal, was born in Oxford, Neb., and has lived throughout the state. "I tell people I was born in Oxford and educated at Harvard," he says, chunkling. "That's one for the books...
...federal government nearly $56 billion in the next six years, and fundamentally changes the welfare system in the United States. Setting a five-year limit on how long families can receive welfare, the bill requires healthy adults to start working again after two years on the dole and provides hardship exemptions for up to 20 percent of welfare beneficiaries. Under the bill, states would receive block grants to operate the programs, along with the right to set their own welfare rules, such as ending benefits before the five-year mark. The legislation is designed to move people on welfare back...
Second, consider the fact that recently I was the subject of a Gestapo-type arrest at five in the morning by scores of Harvard police charging me with multiple counts of threat and extortion brought by two members of CMES. I endured the hardship of nine days in jail, where I toiled in the kitchen from 5:30 in the morning until 6 in the afternoon every day, my name was defamed in the local and national media as an "extortionist" and it took me a taxing three months of legal and media battles until the D.A. dropped those charges...