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...example of how tricky purchasing Harvard Square real estate can be). Currently, the two most well-heeled female clubs—the Bee and the Isis—rent their space from the Fly and the Owl, respectively. It is possible that male and female clubs will one day stand on equal footing, but the process could literally take centuries, and as activists have noted before, justice too long delayed is justice denied...
...dubious distinction of having the U.S.'s shortest school year - 163 days. The furloughs are part of Lingle's solution to a projected budget deficit of nearly $1 billion. Liam Skilling says he and other protesters felt they needed to occupy the governor's office to make a stand because so many in the state were beginning to accept the furloughs as normal. "What we're fighting for now is so simply right," Skilling says. "We're fighting for our public-school system." (See how Hawaii's budget led to furloughed kids...
...decades the word Katyn, for the Poles, has stood for an unspeakable crime as well as tragedy. Henceforth, it will stand also for an additional national disaster - but perhaps also for hope...
...Canal And so, Ellis went into Senjaray in December of 2009 with a real head of steam. He gathered the town elders for a series of shuras and told them about all the goodies that could be headed their way if they agreed to stand with him against the Taliban. By mid-January, he had a written document in English and Pashtu, signed by 12 local elders, promising cooperation and listing the various programs they would soon see. There was the school, of course, and a new medical clinic, and a renovation of the bazaar; there were new police stations...
...they drove - 20 km west of Senjaray and then south. They were nowhere near town. "You might well ask, Why there?" Ellis says. Well, as it happened both Hajji Lala and the police chief owned farmland just south of the proposed canal. "But who was I to stand in the way of progress?" Ellis adds, dryly. "I could put hundreds of people to work, pay them 600 Afghans [$3] a day." It was the beginning of a partnership. Ellis wanted to prove he could produce. The project would begin the following week...