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...workday last week in the northeast Iowa town of Postville, a young man who identified himself as an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, leaned idly against a storefront. He'd rather be working, he explained, but he can't return to his job at Agriprocessors, Inc. That's the meatpacking plant where 389 workers, including some of his relatives, were arrested during a May immigration raid. "Too much fear," he says. "But we have to live here because Guatemala is very...
...Hold the states John Kerry won in 2004 (which are in the Northeast, upper Midwest and West Coast), plus Ohio, where Obama has invested in more than 70 offices, or Florida, where his campaign recently pledged to spend almost $40 million over the remaining six weeks...
Although the season is just beginning for Harvard men’s tennis, its schedule suggests that the hard work starts now. From Friday to Sunday, the Crimson competed in two tournaments: the Northeast Invitational held in Flushing, N.Y. and the Brown Invitational held in Providence, R.I. With the Northeast USTA collegiate event providing a mixture of opponents—from highly-seeded national programs to Ivy League and local college teams—it was the ideal preparation for Harvard. With important tournaments to be played in the upcoming months, the Crimson aims to continue its progress...
...when his mentor retired 2001, Lewis stepped into the CEO spot. He immediately cut 10,000 jobs and outsourced many others to India. In 2003, he spent $47 billion on his first major acquisition, FleetBoston Financial Corp., which gave North Carolina-based Bank of America a foothold in the northeast market. A series of other purchases - Chicago's LaSalle Bank, Charles Schwab's private banking program - earned him a reputation as a man with a penchant for savvy multi-billion dollar deals. This January, he bought Countrywide Financial Corp. for $4 billion in stock, adding "largest mortgage provider" to Bank...
...just hours before the verdict against him was handed down, Samak wasn't about to offer an easy way out. On Tuesday morning, the Premier defiantly toured a vegetable and meat market in the country's northeast, a culinary gimmick that echoed his T.V. cooking-show appearances. Still, even if he is voted back to office by members of the ruling coalition, Samak still faces other legal hurdles. His party faces possible dissolution by the courts because of an electoral-fraud conviction of its former deputy. And a defamation suit against Samak, which could carry a jail sentence, is also...