The 62-year-old Wheaton barber had earned a law degree in his native Thailand and waited eight years for a visa so he could move to the United States and begin a new life. When he heard this year about the Maryland Dream Act, which would grant in-state college tuition discounts to illegal immig rants, he was outraged. Read full article > >
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Legal immigrants join fight against Dream Act
After eight years of renovations, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has 15 new galleries for more than 1,200 works of Islamic culture going back more than a millennium.
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Art Review: The Met’s New Islamic Galleries – Review
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is poised to take action on safety standards for table saws, eight years after concerns about injuries were brought to its attention. Lengthy study of the issue, bureaucratic hurdles and a crush of other regulatory work prolonged the process, commissioners and consumer advocates said. In the meantime, table saws used by hobbyists, shop class students and other consumers caused an estimated 10 amputations on average a day, according to government statistics. Read full article > >
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New York’s 9th Congressional District isn’t the likeliest place for a national political referendum. Vice President Al Gore won it with 67 percent of the vote in 2000, and Barack Obama carried it by 11 percentage points eight years later. It has been held by a string of high-profile Democrats — including Sen. Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and the late Geraldine Ferraro — for decades. Read full article > >
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Republican’s lead in N.Y. election for Weiner’s seat shows Democrats’ vulnerability
He’s been called Darth Vader, feared or derided as a trigger-happy, torture-loving puppet master who called the shots over the eight years of the George W. Bush White House. And now, with the publication of his memoir, “In My Time,” Dick Cheney has once again grabbed the media spotlight. But what about the former vice president is real, exaggerated, or outright myth? Read full article > >
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The lawyer for two American hikers sentenced to eight years in prison said Sunday he has filed an appeal in the case.
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Some $6.6bn (£4bn) sent to Iraq eight years ago to pay for reconstruction may have been stolen, says a US official investigating fraud in the country.
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Probe into missing Iraq billions
Painter decorator Robert Burns has transformed his Brighton home into a replica of the Sistine chapel ceiling. He explains why he has spent the last eight years turning his house in Sussex into a Renaissance-style fresco.
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A man is jailed for eight years for his part in what was described as the most serious fake medicine scam in the EU.
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Man jailed over £4.7m fake drugs
Apparently free sandwiches are the way to lure young professionals. Nearly 25 percent of college graduates with one to eight years of work experience say they want to work at Google, almost twice as many as wanted to work at Apple, the second-most…
So much for military intelligence. For eight years the U.S. government paid Dennis Montgomery, a California computer programmer, more than $20 million for software he claimed could stop al Qaeda’s next attack by detecting secret messages in Al-Jazeera…
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Computer Nerd Conned U.S. Military
A reward of £20,000 is offered to find the killer of a jogger in an east London park exactly eight years ago.
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Reward offered in jogger murder
After eight years together, Keith Olbermann and MSNBC are parting ways. The prime-time host made the surprising announcement at the end of his “Countdown” show on Friday.
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A man is jailed for eight years for beating another man to death in Carluke after a row over a damaged sofa.
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil hails his eight years in power, days before he steps down with approval ratings of more than 80%.
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