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This year, the Season of Giving has also coughed up an abundance of holiday-themed applications for the iPhone - scores of them. There are, for instance, various gift-buying apps that range from Better Christmas List ($2.99), which tracks your budget (and recently added a "much-requested passcode lock option") to Hanukah Holiday List ($1.99), which is made by the same dude and does exactly the same thing (but costs, inexplicably, a buck less). Or check out the free GPS Christmas List, which sends you an alert when you're near a store that sells something on your list...
...According to Jones, Okonjo-Iweala has been a hard worker for as long as she can remember. A perpetually busy student, Okonjo-Iweala wrote for The Harvard Independent and worked various jobs, including cleaning houses on Saturdays for pocket money...
...office with a course syllabus in hand. “Stanley, you are not doing this to these poor children!” Bass said in imitation of the teaching fellow. As founder of both CES and the Social Studies concentration, students said he strove to integrate various academic disciplines and combat the specialization of the University. “If Stanley had left the University in 1970, he still would have had an enormous shaping influence on Harvard,” said David Blackbourn, current director of CES. Throughout his career, Hoffmann’s personal experiences in Vichy...
...acknowledged the workers' situation, saying, "I think these workers, if they have earned their benefits and their pay, then these companies need to follow through on those commitments." The Rev. Jesse Jackson appeared at the sit-in. Illinois' attorney general, Lisa Madigan, announced that her office planned to investigate various aspects of Republic's operations. On Monday, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich held a quickly organized press conference at the plant and vowed to ask a federal court to enforce federal guidelines. He also said the state would sever business dealings with Bank of America until the Republic matter is resolved...
...that more than one group may have been involved. Sudhir Bloeria, a senior advisor to the governor of the state, says that while the Kashmir militancy may be on the wane, the Mumbai attacks have prompted officials in the state to look more closely at the connections among the various groups operating in the area, including LeT. "Mumbai adds a new dimension to the problems we have," he says. "It gives a little more sense of urgency...