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...think there’s a certain half-life to administrator restructures that assumes they should be looked at on a regular basis,” Kirby said. “[The OIP] made an enormous difference in a very, very short period of time...
...figure hits that benchmark, it will represent a 43 percent rise over the past two years—marking an upward trend after a period of stabilization from the founding of AODS in 2005 until 2008. Prior to the creation of AODS, the number of hospital cases had increased nearly nine-fold over six years...
...Italian children’s holiday Befana. “I was on the street on my bicycle when the bomb came. It was a miracle that I survived. Since then I have written a lot of poetry on it,” Tambellini says. He remembers that frightening period of Italian history, when the government forced women like his mother to give up not only the pots and pans in their kitchen, but also the wedding rings on their finger to be melted and used for the war effort. Toward the end of the war, Tambellini recalls...
...already been invoked 74 times, putting it on pace to surpass the 110th Congress, which set the high mark with 139. That was more than double the mark set by the Democratic minority in the previous Congress, 68. By comparison, there were only 70 filibusters in the entire period between 1919 (when Senate rules were changed to allow supermajorities to end a filibuster...
Greece's streets are covered in soggy confetti, remnants of this year's muted Orthodox carnival celebrations, which came to an end on Monday, the day when Greeks marked the beginning of Lent. For the country, a period of spartan repentance lies ahead - and not just because the seven-week period of Lenten fasting is starting. After years of overspending by both the government and ordinary people armed with credit cards - and now flush with credit-card debt - Greeks know the party is over. According to a poll released on Feb. 14, nearly two-thirds of people support the government...