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...fear that doing so might affect her residency status. "It's depressingly shattering. It sent shivers through us," she says, as her 1-year-old son plods across the floor of her trailer, playing with an empty butter tub. But Odunsi and Nwanze's story has an Irish twist: Athlone didn't want to let them go. Within 24 hours of their departure, more than 4,000 people - nearly one-fifth of the town's population - had signed a petition asking Ireland's Justice Minister to reconsider. The town council passed a near-unanimous motion demanding that they be allowed...
According to Addington, who became the team’s advisor for the competition, the design, entitled “The Tsunami Challenge: Outside the Tent,” is a new twist on an old concept: the core...
...restaurant in San Jose, Calif. The fast-food chain became the butt of every late-night comedian's jokes, and its CEO, Jack Schuessler, faced an embarrassing lawsuit and more than $15 million in lost business, thanks to the unwelcome publicity. Then things took an even more bizarre twist. Authorities in San Jose turned their attention to Ayala, alleging that she fabricated the story and that the finger belonged to an associate of her husband's. Ayala dropped her lawsuit against Wendy's, and the company was exonerated. CEO Schuessler can almost laugh about the "finger incident...
...elections as vindication of its push for democracy in the Arab world. This week 3 million Lebanese voters begin going to the polls to elect a government that the U.S. hopes will be the first in 29 years free of Syrian control. And in the saga's final, Shakespearean twist, it is Hariri's son Saad, 35, a political novice who briefly fled the country after Rafiq's death, who is favored to become the next Prime Minister...
...Darling Harbour and the revamped wharf district of Woolloomooloo?have become home to a plethora of fashionable new dining options. Older suburbs have also benefited from a new wave of establishments providing what Australian restaurateurs are fast winning an international reputation for: fantastically fresh food prepared with a cosmopolitan twist. Heading Down Under? Impress clients or friends by making reservations at any of these restaurants du jour...