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...bronze). Buttle's medal was particularly welcome, as he had fallen during his short program. "It's unbelievable," he said. "I would have never thought I could come back." Then came a one-two finish Friday in the skeleton for Calgary firefighter Duff Gibson and World Cup leader Jeff Pain. Gibson, 39, who immediately retired from his sport, has the distinction of being the oldest person to win an Olympic winter gold in an individual event...
Thanks for the extraordinary article about the many difficult aspects of Mexican immigration. Your story was a dead-on portrayal of all the pain, confusion and resentment in the quagmire of illegal immigration. There are many wonderful, hardworking people who are doing needed jobs in the U.S. and helping their families back home. It is unfortunate that there are also many migrants who are here to take advantage of American generosity. The core problem is that the U.S. has such an incoherent plan for immigrants that people on both sides of the border feel threatened...
...This does not mean the world should neglect to take prudent steps to fight bird flu?a pandemic could become the greatest health catastrophe the modern world has ever faced. Avian flu is already beginning to cause real economic pain. When infected wild birds were detected last week in European countries, poultry sales across the continent plummeted. But a handful of dead swans on the Danube and a bad quarter for chicken sellers in Rome isn't why we're spending billions to fight bird flu. We want to stop the big one. A report released last week...
Nonetheless, the argument for divestment from PetroChina was much more profound than both general gravitas and the other common argument for divestment, the infliction of financial pain on evildoers. In the second category of divestment campaigns, the demand is that Harvard terminate a direct money flow between the endowment and the finances of injustice, because even just remotely funding evil is morally intolerable...
...Ferlan, 30, may reportedly have been looking for a hook-up at Au Bon Pain last Friday, but he came away from the incident locked-up instead. A caller alerted HUPD to two loiterers allegedly engaged in a lewd act inside the Mass Ave. restaurant. Police found the pair, released one after issuing him or her a no-trespass warning, but arrested Ferlan of Boston because of an outstanding warrant. Sometimes, love can be so harsh...