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...that had secretly left the Dutch port of Rotterdam in late June. Canadian authorities were uncertain whether the immigrants, who paid from $1,200 to $2,500 in Canadian funds for the trip, boarded the ship in the Dutch port or were picked up en route. What they did learn is that by taking advantage of fog that blanketed the coast, the ship's acting skipper, Castor Lasalle, had managed to ease the Amelie inshore. After pleading guilty to violating immigration laws, Nygren was sentenced to a year in jail and Singh to three months. Lasalle...
...hoodlum boy never know." That Night, Author Alice McDermott's second novel, deftly balances the ravenous powers of young love against the shelters of community, security, the orderly progress of generations. In the aftermath of the episode that night, the parents in the neighborhood "had only begun to learn that while their love had been sufficient to form us, it would not necessarily keep us alive." Passions, in McDermott's striking prose, both murder and create...
...pens through the mail. IKEA's management is still youthful, light on titles and neckties and thoroughly gung ho. The spirit is whipped up in seminars for employees on "the IKEA way." One thing stressed in the sessions: everyone has a right to make mistakes, so long as they learn from them...
North testified that he assumed Meese not only knew about the shipment but helped draft the finding that authorized it, contradicting Meese's statements that he did not learn of the U.S. involvement in the sales until...
...that Labor's Neil Kinnock had campaigned more effectively on television (causing Lady Seear, a Liberal politician, to complain, "He may be a nice man, but for a Prime Minister it's not enough to be nice. It's not enough even for a cook!"). British politicians may be learning techniques from us, but it appeared to an American visiting during the election that U.S. television could learn something from the British...