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...anything more extravagant than fruit, yogurt and rice. In contrast, his sarcophagus has now been enclosed within a gaudy green and white cage, with the floor inside filled knee-deep in cash, bills inserted as donations by the pious. Some visitors are so zealous they openly weep at the sight of the tomb, including a few of the grim-faced bearded...
...October of 1975, 17-year-old Alistair Little, approached the window of the Griffin family household and shot 19-year-old Jim Griffin three times. Jim’s younger brother, Joe, frozen by the sight of the gun in the masked man’s hand, stood in the street 10 feet away and watched Jim die. With this event as an historical backdrop, “Five Minutes of Heaven” director Oliver Hirschbiegel probes the intensely personal nature of the divisive conflict that has plagued Ireland over the last century. Best known...
...departmental QR-fulfilling course that was always welcoming, however, especially for those who balk at the sight of numbers, was Math Xa, the basic introduction to calculus offered every fall. But now Math Xa is nominally no more, having been replaced this fall with Math "Ma." The reason for the name change? So far no response from the math department, so for now, our theories—after the jump...
Unlike most of Europe's illegal immigrants, the men in the makeshift camp known as "the Jungle" near the French port of Calais have hardly kept out of sight of the locals. Surviving under leaky plastic sheeting amid discarded food and dirty clothing, the men - most of whom fled desperate violence and poverty - have spent months, sometimes even years, as the most visible challenges to, and victims of, Europe's tangled immigration laws...
...sight of Afghan men camped in squalid settlements around Calais is hardly new. Over the past decade - and even before the 2001 Afghanistan war began - thousands of Afghans have traveled illegally on epic journeys that last weeks and cross several borders. They all have one goal in mind: to sneak aboard container trucks on ferry boats bound for Britain, where they see their best prospects. With no national identity cards in Britain, illegal immigrants for years have found it easier to escape notice there than in France, where police frequently check immigrants' documents in the streets. (Read "Postcard from Calais...