Word: laureled
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained about 600 workers at a factory in Laurel on suspicion that they were illegal immigrants. It was ICE's largest raid at a single workplace; in May, agents descended on a kosher meatpacking plant in Iowa, arresting some 400 people. ICE arrested nearly 5,000 workers...
...much as I'd like to, I cahn't join the chorus of critical contumely. The Love Guru is a shambling, hit-or-miss thing, like an old Laurel and Hardy two-reeler. And like the situations those comics often got into, this movie is a fine mess...
...Committee chair Jay M. Harris also said the the most represented area of the roughly 40 proposals received has been the humanities. “It’s pretty obvious you’re not going to map out any curriculum from scratch,” said Professor Laurel Ulrich, who will begin teaching “Pursuits of Happiness” next fall. “It also seems like a terrible waste of resources to throw out courses that are working. ... It’s a question of what students are required to do and where...
...Italy is still demanding that the Getty return one more of the key works in its collection, an ancient Greek bronze, Victorious Youth. Stately and supple-looking, with his right hand upraised to place on his own brow a laurel wreath that disappeared long ago, he was discovered at sea by Italian fishermen in 1964 and purchased by the museum 13 years later for a reported $3.95 million. The Italians say the bronze was smuggled out of Italy. The Getty insists it was discovered in international waters before being taken to Italian soil. For good measure, the boy was never...
...every year, when they would show up with gifts for a family who wrote to his dad's TV station, asking for help. Now he wonders if it is better to give money and get out of the way, as he does when he gets off Highway 101 at Laurel Canyon Blvd., where there's always a person begging for money. "You think, This is a $20 light. So you hope to catch the light. And then you feel guilty for hoping to catch the light," he says. "People say, They'll buy booze. Fair enough. They need it." Clooney...