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They may not have agreed on whether to skip school, take the day off work or refrain from all commerce today, but the hundreds of thousands of peaceful protestors who turned out in major cities across the country on Monday clearly conveyed their message that immigrants are essential to the U.S.
“Manny being Manny.” That was the bemused phrase people employed to explain the always weird, sometimes amusing, often maddening behavior of Manny Ramirez, the slugger who retired last week.
At the first Quebec Conference , rugged Canadian Sergeant Major Emile Couture's job was to keep conferees supplied with stationery. It was also his job to pick up the unused paper when the Conference was over
When you think about skiing over the holidays, the holiday that comes to mind is Christmas. But Christmas at major ski resorts, while festive enough, also means peak prices for hotel rooms and condos, long lift lines, and the same crowd trying to get overpriced lunches at the mountaintop lodges at the same time
The beginning of the World Cup in South Africa next June kicks-off a festival of football on the pitch, but there are a wealth of issues for the host country to tackle off the field too. Up to half-a-million fans are expected to visit for the tournament and a string of sparkling new stadiums and hotels have sprung up to accommodate them
As Democrats on Capitol Hill move toward revealing landmark bills to drastically reform the nation’s health care system, the White House and the Democratic National Committee are increasing efforts to rally public support.
A national poll indicates that nearly two out of three Americans approve of the job President Obama’s doing, but the survey suggests that people appear to be split on how he’s handling some aspects of the economy. Obama’s job approval rating stands at 64 percent in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp