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...this year's presidential race. Politicians, he says with disgust, "use you and then get rid of you." Mobster Ahn Sang Min says he, too, has been approached by politicians seeking to fix the December election. Ahn, more menacing than dapper in olive sports jacket, black turtleneck and white slip-ons, is best known for ordering three murders?the last one while in prison. (He says he's now counseling young people.) Gangstergate? "They can't touch the big gangsters," Ahn says, "they are too well connected to the political power...
...worry, after you've completed these few simple tasks, the College will slip softly from your mind only to return for a few fleeting seconds twice a semester when your secretary cancels your office hour. Here is your initiation itinerary, please be no more than seven minutes late to any event (no, seven is not a random number...
...second year is when people can slip through the cracks," Laurans says...
...governments that both countries would send their own immigration and police officials to the Balkans to help bust human trafficking rings, which are responsible for 10% of the illegal migration into Europe. On Friday Britain and France agreed to dispatch immigration officers to root out asylum seekers trying to slip across the Channel on the Eurostar. Meanwhile Britain's Home Secretary Jack Straw pressed for a tougher line against asylum ?shoppers?-migrants who pass through several European countries before applying for asylum-and an overhaul of the international convention on refugees. Straw wants the legitimacy of many asylum claims...
...strength is in our history. Our passsion for those less fortunate is in our bloodline," Galluccio said. "We cannot allow ourselves to gently slip into a more common place where selfishness is easily justified by entitlement, and individuality rules...