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...themselves having to cough up similar prices. "We really wanted an elephant for our son's birthday," says Gul Mukhey, a business development professional based in Delhi. "But the owner said the price on that particular day would be 21,000 rupees ($525) as we were in a long queue!" But mare and elephant owners counter criticism of their prices by pointing out that it costs a lot to maintain their animals, and since they mostly get work during the wedding season - for most of the year, their work is restricted to religious processions or children's parties, which...
...ourselves, either, about who we are telling this to. To characterize illegal immigrants as queue-jumping, lawbreaking scum is seriously unjust. The motives of illegal immigrants--which can be summarized as "a better life"--are identical to those of legal immigrants. In fact, they are largely identical to the motives of our own parents, grandparents and great-grandparents when they immigrated. And not just that. Ask yourself, of these three groups--today's legal and illegal immigrants and the immigrants of generations ago--which one has proven most dramatically its appreciation of our country? Which one has shown the most...
...What's more, the FOIA requests must be dealt with on a first-come, first-served basis, which means that issues of national security or domestic policy don't get priority. On the contrary, as it happens, the first people to get in the Clinton archives queue had a set of requests for information dealing with the issue of unidentified flying objects...
...closing in on $100 a barrel, the pinch of higher prices is being felt worldwide. In China, however, the impact of the hikes has been shortages at the pump, and tempers are running hot. Last weekend, a man was fatally stabbed in Shandong province after he jumped the queue at a local gas station. A second man in Henan province was killed in a similar incident Tuesday...
...Attiya, there is no actual shortage of fuel. "Why is the price of oil very high? I can confirm to you that there is no relation [to] demand and supply. We don't believe there is any shortage of supply in the whole world. I never saw a long queue in any gas station in the world. If you take the inventories, they are the highest in five years...