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...when something goes wrong that Europeans become aware of the illegal immigrants trying to scratch a living in their midst. On a dank night in February 2004, anonymous calls to emergency services in Lancashire, England, gave the first hint of something that would expose the harsh life, and deaths, of a group of Chinese illegals. The calls warned that cockle pickers had been caught by the tide on England's northwestern seaboard, at Morecambe Bay. Last Friday, one caller, later identified as Lin Liang Ren, from Fuzhou city, China, was convicted of the manslaughter of 21 Chinese men and women...
...described a harsh reality about Iraq’s future,” she said. “We have to consider this and reconcile our own formation of policy with the terrible reality of the country’s future...
...upperclass Houses, he decided to move off-campus and join an unknown number of transgendered students who remain virtually invisible to students.All of his transgendered friends have experienced at least verbal abuse because of their gender identities. But it’s not the harsh words that get to him. It’s the fact that Harvard doesn’t provide institutional protection for people like him.Because of this, Eric hasn’t “transitioned”—in other words, he hasn’t begun to live full-time...
Cambridge Public School (CPS) committee newcomer Patricia M. Nolan ’80 received a harsh drubbing yesterday when colleagues blasted her proposal to allocate an additional $75,000 dollars to principals of local elementary schools. Nolan said the motion, which she filed last Thursday, would give principals more autonomy and provide needed funds for the creation of an additional staff member at each school. But committee veterans criticized Nolan at last night’s CPS committee meeting for circumventing the budget planning that has consumed the board’s attention in the last weeks...
...industry in Alaska at an awkward time for the Bush Administration and its supporters in Congress. While the Senate was busy last week passing a largely symbolic budget amendment in support of opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to new drilling, Prudhoe Bay was facing the harsh realities of operating the state's existing wells...