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Last month, the elder prince enjoyed a night at a club in Cornwall, southwestern England, which lures customers with shots of alcohol selling for $2 apiece. Soon after William left, a fellow patron was slashed with a broken bottle. In 2000, Euan Blair, the son of the Prime Minister, was arrested for being "drunk and incapable." "A lot of my friends, if they've worked really hard during the week, go out and get drunk on the weekend," says Claudine Biggs, an 18-year-old London schoolgirl. Biggs has written a play that premiered at a north London theater...
...access to education is to incentivize illegal immigration. Education, however, is too valuable a social opportunity to let this hypothesis dictate this policy. Essentially, this excuse is little more than an attempt to veil the xenophobia that prevails in many parts of the American Southwest. Across Arizona and other Southwestern states, policies like Proposition 300 arise out of bigotry and racism. While the theme of this measure and the theme of curbing illegal immigration are related, the students affected by this ban on subsidies are unlike adult illegal immigrants who made a decision to cross the border illegally. Not only...
...years has killed or arrested command figures like the bearded and glib Reyes, 59, who was one of the less mysterious FARC comandantes because of his role as media flack. His real name was Luis Edgar Devia Silva - and his satellite phone apparently gave away his location in remote southwestern Colombia, near or across the Ecuadoran border. Bogota has also begun extraditing FARC leaders to the U.S., and two of them were recently convicted and handed lengthy federal prison sentences. It's not even certain if the FARC's 77-year-old leader, Manuel Marulanda (known as Tirofijo, or Sureshot...
Huckabee has focused his Texas campaign on rousing his evangelical core constituency in the Texas Bible Belt - conservative towns like Tyler in east Texas; Waco, home to Baylor University; Plano, a conservative, affluent Dallas-area community; and Fort Worth, where Huckabee attended the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in the 1970s. It is his efforts in Fort Worth that concern advocates like Miller; there SBOE District 11 member Pat Hardy, a former schoolteacher, curriculum adviser and moderate Republican, is facing a challenge from fellow Republican Barney Maddox, a urologist and ardent supporter of creationism. With no Democratic candidate on the ballot...
...original version of this article incorrectly stated that Mike Huckabee attended the Fort Worth-based Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in the 1970s. Huckabee attended the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary...