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...threatened legal action against his alma mater last fall after he got no action on his request that the $1.1 million be given to such Houston area charities as the American Red Cross, the Catholic archdiocese charities, and five churches, including the one run by Osteen, best-selling author of "Your Best Life Now." Lay's deadline for a reply came and went with no lawsuit, but in February, the trustee for his finances arrived seeking the money for lawyer's fees...
...measure would create private worker placement agencies called Ellis Island Centers, licensed by the federal government to match approved guest workers with jobs that cannot be filled by Americans - a variation on an idea offered by Bush back in January 2004. ?U.S. employers will engage the private agencies and request guest workers,? Pence says. ?In a matter of days, the private agencies will match guest workers with jobs, perform a health screening, fingerprint them and provide the appropriate information to the FBI and Homeland Security so that a background check can be performed, and provide the guest worker with...
...attractive place for students to stay all day, leaving their books behind when they head out for lunch or a review session. But thanks to Michael I. Levin-Gesundheit ’08, a new library policy makes this less of an option. New signs posted throughout the library request that students not claim study space by piling up belongings or locking up laptops to library furniture. If a desk or carrel has been “reserved” but is unoccupied, students can remove the items and use the space. Levin-Gesundheit brought a complaint after an disagreement...
Some days Hansen admits getting depressed after arguing with the city over her request for an electric permit, which was turned down because her brother, who is not licensed in Louisiana, wired the house. She doesn't have air-conditioning or a refrigerator. When friends e-mail her pictures of the giant steel structures protecting London and Amsterdam, she gets riled, contemplating the "crappy" earthen mounds that shield her own city. But she's staying put. Her husband has a great job as an underwater diver in the Gulf, and she loves her friends and her work as a music...
...said, ‘Tell me about your research,’” a request not that different from the many conversations carried on among the MIHNUET volunteers and their audience, Wong says. She noticed that this man was a little more persistent than what she was used to. Her conversation continued until the man had acquired a deep knowledge of her work—“Down to the exact molecules I was studying,” Wong says...