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...gave up an easy run into the U.S.--the border patrol wasn't in sight--to stay with a woman who had twisted her ankle as she took off north toward California. What really angers Guzman, as he waits for a Mexican rescue patrol to shuttle him to the nearest town, is having to make this illegal crossing in the first place. After working in a Los Angeles lumberyard for five years, he got stopped in a police check in January. He was deported a month later. Guzman believes he knows whom to blame. "Damn Arabs," he says. "Ever since...
Brussels may be the headquarters of the European Union, but Strasbourg is the nearest thing Europe has to a true capital. For over half a century Strasbourg has been the site of the Council of Europe, a pan-regional human rights body linking 43 countries from the Urals to the Atlantic. It is also one of the European Parliament's three homes, and houses the European Court of Human Rights and a host of other international bodies...
...depletion of the endowment, even one that is statistically insignificant. These misers fall into two camps. The prestige fanatics worry about marring Harvard’s image as the nation’s wealthiest University. But with Harvard’s endowment safely billions of dollars larger than its nearest competitor spending a few extra dollars isn’t likely to threaten its position at the top. The doomsayers, on the other hand, worry about saving Harvard’s endowment for the proverbial rainy day when a cloudy economic climate will demand that Harvard dip into its stash...
...Weighing less than 2 lbs. each, her babies were alive, but barely. They clung so tenuously to life that her doctors recommended she name them A, B and C. Then, after a year of heroic interventions--brain shunts, tracheotomies, skull remodeling--often requiring emergency helicopter rides to the hospital nearest their rural Tennessee home, the Hickmans learned that their triplets had cerebral palsy...
...give me some compassion for the likes of Stephen Sachs, whose pontifications show he will quickly get a job at the nearest conservative think tank (Opinion, “Nonsense on Stilts...