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...Australia's greatest Depression heroes were a cricket player and a horse. Populated by local working class heroes, English soccer "provided a sense of national wellbeing at a time when other factors weren't able to do that," says Matthew Taylor, a professor of history at De Montfort University in Leicester...
...stakes were middling when, in February of last year, Penguin Books and De Montfort University kicked off their “A Million Penguins” project. It was a collaborative online novel—given a year to gestate in wiki form, without restrictions—a mirror walking down a series of tubes. Now the project is over, the novel published, and the verdict in: It’s terrible...
...Virtually everyone in town seems to agree. Montfort's city council has appealed for the Malians to be released and offered a path to legalization based on the merits of their situations. Their employer has sought work permits that would allow the 23 Malians to obtain resident visas, noting that productivity in his nearly 700-employee facility has fallen over 10% since their arrest. Petitions demanding the Malians return gave garnered between 4,000 and 6,000 signatures; Montfort merchants have expressed their solidarity by tying white strips of cloth outside their stores; and marches and rallies continue drawing large...
...Nicolas Sarkozy continues to hammer his get-tough immigration message, even provoked protest among his own supporters when he promised to create a "ministry of immigration and national identity." In his current role as Interior Minister, meanwhile, Sarkozy insists the law must be upheld, although he offers that the Montfort Malians will be given preferential treatment if they return to Mali and apply for residence visas. No dice, say their supporters...
...Montfort residents vow to continue calling attention to the case until all 23 are free to return to the town with papers. This week, they got help from Malian presidential candidate Tiabali Dram?, who lived for almost two decades as a political exile in France, and saluted the "the kindness, charity and humanity France has traditionally offered immigrants." He added, "Some in France want that to change, but I come to Montfort today thank its people for demonstrating how that tradition remains alive." The fate of the 23 Malians arrested in the town, however, may depend on whether the French...