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...lawsuits stemming from the so-called widow penalty in U.S. immigration regulations, suspended the rule's enforcement. "Smart immigration policy balances strong enforcement practices with commonsense, practical solutions to complicated issues," she said. Critics have been harsher, suggesting that imposing the provision made authorities look petty if not heartless...
...even in South Carolina, not now. Sanford has gone further than any other governor in passing up the Democrats' stimulus money, but he's turning down only 10% of his state's share, about 2% of his state's spending. He is still being portrayed as Scrooge, a heartless ideologue who wants to close prisons, fire teachers, shutter programs for autistic kids and ultimately shut down state government during a recession. And those portrayals aren't coming from Democrats. "The governor has one of the most radical philosophies I've ever seen," says state senator Hugh Leatherman, 78, the Republican...
...British academic Duncan McCargo counters such heartless defeatism with Tearing Apart the Land, an introduction to a scandalously underreported conflict. Most of the 1.8 million people in Thailand's three southernmost provinces are Malay-speaking Muslims, but they make up only 2% of a largely Thai-speaking Buddhist country. For a century, attempts at assimilation have been met with resentment and rebellion. The current hostilities erupted under former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose hard-line response to what he dismissed as banditry turned sporadic militant attacks into a full-blown insurgency...
Wondering how they got that tiny actor to cry so convincingly on cue? Well, his mother actually did abandon him in a crowd and he really did think he was lost. The people walking past him are extras, and his tears are real. Heartless? Maybe. Forced method acting? Sure. The admakers "went to incredible lengths to make this as good of an experience as possible," says Jenna Mandel-Ricci, of the New York City Health Department's Tobacco Control Bureau. She points out that the commercial was filmed in one take - meaning the little boy went through the trauma...
...didn’t begrudge him his negotiating if rice prices were as crummy as he said. But was this my grand re-entry? Is this how things would be from here on out—me, cowering in the corner like a nun? Sister Winnie of the Heartless and Frumpy?Then I realized what I could do for the rest of my life—open a dress shop for lasses in mourning—and call it, what, The Gloomy Loom of Doom?“And that’s why my embroidered pigs are so rotten...