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...Word has gotten out that Dell plans to launch its own high-end smartphone. According to The Wall Street Journal, "Dell is focusing on so-called smartphones, higher-end devices that include features like Web browsing and email...
...says the terms of loan agreement are vague. "What's 'competitve'?" he asks, adding that he wants to be able to examine the books of Japanese companies such as Toyota, Honda and Nissan to see what they actually pay employees. "I'm not going to take somebody else's word for it," he said after his speech...
...Nicolson sought to collect gay pride items and pass them out to students to wear in the dining halls. “There’s absolutely nothing wrong with being proud of who you are,” Nicolson said. Yesterday, Nicolson affixed a black pin with the word “pride” and a rainbow triangle to the front of his white cook’s hat. Adams House cook and the union’s Chief Steward Edward B. Childs, who is involved in the ongoing investigation, said discrimination based on sexual orientation has been...
...Word of that obligation does not seem to have reached Kiwanga. In one case last October, an elderly Spanish nun, Sister Mara, was caught in the cross fire between rebels and the Congolese army and became trapped under a falling wall. Still conscious, Sister Mara used her mobile phone to call Father George at a nearby Catholic mission. He contacted officials at MONUC and asked for an armored rescue but says they refused. A few hours later, the rebels carried Sister Mara to the front line. From there, a group of nuns took her to the Rutshuru...
Carol Porter, 63 and no word mincer, sits in her modest kitchen in Euclid, Minn., and recalls the day her 118-year-old church was burned to the ground. "I was baptized, confirmed and married there," she reports. Her family had moved two lots down from Euclid's First Presbyterian, so she was able to watch through the kitchen window a few years ago as fellow parishioners knocked down the church, buried its fixtures and then put a match to what remained, sending a thousand Sundays of memories up in smoke...