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...named Caboose, Carr won an upset primary victory over heavily endorsed opponent Dean Altobelli. Carr focused on his own background: he says that because he lived in more than 20 foster homes as a child, he wants to make adoption easier, and points to his company, which operates old railway cars, and his work restoring the Mackinac Island lighthouse as examples of how historic preservation can enhance tourism...
BRUSSELS: Striking workers outraged over the dismissal of the judge investigating a child sex-ring case marched throughout the country Tuesday. Car workers marched to the Brussels Justice Palace as bus drivers, steel workers, railway employees firefighters and oil workers all spontaneously went out on strike. The strikes are in response a Belgian Supreme Court decision to remove investigating judge Jean-Marc Conerotte from the case of convicted child rapist Marc Dutroux. The Court said Conerotte prejudiced himself by attending a charity fundraiser dinner for the families of missing children. Conerotte received national acclaim after his investigators rescued two imprisoned...
...alien zone every evening. The campus is bordered by I-94, the east-west highway that goes from Chicago to Seattle. Around the University were erected--I recall from the center field of countless softball games in the local summer leagues that played on diamonds squinched between warehouses and railway tracks--great grain elevators, bearing different emblems--Cargill, General Mills, Ceresota--recalling the cathedral-church of Albi in Southern France...
Homer A. Plessy, described in court papers as "of mixed descent, in the proportion of seven-eighths Caucasian and one-eighth African blood," bought himself a first-class ticket from New Orleans to Covington, Louisiana, and took a seat reserved for whites on the East Louisiana Railway. He was jailed for violating an exquisitely even-handed, race-neutral statute that forbade members of either race to occupy accommodations set aside for the other--with the exception of "nurses attending the children of the other race." Plessy insisted he was white, and when that failed, argued that criminal-court judge John...
...bottom... I believe both the English and the Americans are happy that we are exterminating the Jewish riff-raff." This is certainly the conclusion he would have been led to if he was aware that Roosevelt had the ability to order a bombing of the railway lines leading to the concentration camp Auschwitz but refused to do so. Such an action could have saved thousands upon thousands of Jewish and non-Jewish lives...