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...truth is, if homeland security money were truly distributed based on risk, there would be no guaranteed minimum at all. Guaranteed minimums are useful only for getting states up to speed - or for pork-barrel indulgences. At this point, all states have received enough money to set up a basic emergency infrastructure. So the rational thing to do would be to focus our limited resources on high-density, high-risk locations. But Congress is not rational. The Senate gives disproportionate power to small states, and those states do not want to lose their homeland-security entitlements. So the result...
...everyone breathed a sigh of relief. “We saw a lot of things in the first half they didn’t run against Duquesne,” Murphy said. “They didn’t run their whole repertoire, so it was pretty basic in the one film we had. I think we just adjusted well. I think our defensive staff really did an outstanding job. We have a history of finding out what they do best and then taking it away from them.” Harvard allowed a total of just 62 yards...
...working villages called bateyes, which are essentially labor camps. A 2007 report by Amnesty International described the Dominican Republic’s 400 bateyes as having living conditions “among the worst in the country,” without access to “the most basic public services such as health care, education, running water, and a sewage system.” A 2005 article in the Miami Herald said, “Aside from hunger, a common complaint voiced by the workers is their mistreatment by plantation foremen from insults to beatings and even being locked...
...These workers and their families live a life permanently “in transit,” which is the phrasing loophole that allows the Dominican Republic to deny the basic rights of citizenship not just to Haitian immigrants, but even to their children born on Dominican soil. Although the Dominican constitution theoretically guarantees citizenship to “all persons born in the territory” of the country, an exception exists for those persons deemed to be “in transit...
...high-margin items in 1999 but are now filled with shoes, bags and jewelry. Accessories bring in about half of the company's revenue. In addition, there are less expensive clothes, which Hermann insists are not a second line, layered into the stores. The friendlier-priced "capsule" collection includes basic pieces like jersey evening dresses and safari jackets that won't crease in the latest...