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...think it is ethically reprehensible that the Tribune would sue a campus paper in an effort to drive them out of the market," said Michael M. Lazarus, the founder of University Wire and a 1996 graduate from the Northwestern School of Journalism...
Last fall he was outraged by President Clinton's welfare bill, which deprived legal immigrants of some benefits. As one of the country's most prominent immigrants, Soros felt he must respond. He did so at once, setting up the Emma Lazarus Fund (named for the writer of The New Colossus, the poem excerpted in the inscription on the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor..."), to which he pledged $50 million over three years. Legal immigrants represent only about 6% of those on public aid, he points out, yet they took more than 40% of the cuts...
...modem) with the best of the Net (tons of information, most of it free). Behind the scenes, database software (Oracle's, of course) will make all this goodness transparently simple to navigate. On the front end, in Ellison's vision, might be Apple's famously friendly user interface, returning, Lazarus-like, with a cute little beep, to drive a stake through the heart of Microsoft...
...pearl of great price) address humankind's ideal relationship to God's kingdom more than a specific paradise. Regarding heaven's actual "mysteries," he tells the Apostles that it is not given to most people to know them. An exception to this rule is his chilling parable of Lazarus and Dives: The rich master, consigned to hell, lifts up his eyes to the beggar, who has been "carried by angels into Abraham's bosom," requesting that Lazarus dip a finger in some water to cool him. Impossible, says Abraham, for "between us and you there is a great gulf fixed...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Last year's surgery on welfare drew plenty of criticism for its decreases in benefits for legal U.S. immigrants. Billionaire financier George Soros, an immigrant himself, called the bill "mean-spirited." Now the Hungarian-born philanthropist is taking matters into his own hands. Soros created the Emma Lazarus Fund last fall with $50 million to aid immigrants affected by the new law; on Thursday, after consideration of over 400 grant applications, the first round of awards will go to work. Over $11.8 million will go to 22 advocacy groups, including Hispanic, Asian, Catholic and Jewish organizations. The money...