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...were hoping to find work as day laborers. At least 54 of the passengers had suffocated to death. Even though the incident highlights the dangers of illegal immigration, plenty more Burmese will likely flood over the border. And there's little chance that a constitutional referendum is going to stem that tide...
...hope that he and the College are able to strike an administrative balance: undertaking projects that appeal to students and take advantage of the College’s resources, while leaving some aspects of social programming up to current undergraduates. Many of the problems with Harvard social life stem from lack of funding and lack of social space, rather than lack of student initiative. The fun czar is the ideal figure to secure funding and social space for undergraduates, because he—unlike the typical College student—is a paid College employee. Unfortunately, the official backing...
...people pay $4 a day for a Starbucks coffee, an expensive butter doesn't seem that extravagant." If this was the way food vendors and consumers were thinking, it was clearly up to me to collect a bunch of these expensive items to bring them down, to try to stem the contagion of snottification...
...intervention in the country will have to be followed by a robust reconstruction effort, which neither the AU nor the [Comoran] union government can afford." Elsewhere in Africa, AU operations are far more limited, deploying small, ineffective forces in Somalia and Darfur. While the AU did lead efforts to stem post-election violence in Kenya in January, it does little to quell unrest in other areas, such as Congo, Mali, Niger, Nigeria or Uganda, or looming confrontation between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and its observers endorse corrupt elections from Nigeria to Zimbabwe. Kurt Shillinger of the South African Institute of International...
...charges stem from allegations that Kilpatrick and Beatty, also 37, lied under oath about their intimate relationship during last year's lawsuit involving two former Detroit police officers. Those cops had sued the city, claiming they were fired for investigating reports of misconduct by two of the mayor's former bodyguards. In September, a jury awarded the two officers more than $6.5 million in a settlement that eventually became $8.4 million in a deal apparently brokered in secret by Kilpatrick's attorneys to keep the text messages between the mayor and Beatty confidential, according to the Detroit Free Press...