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Title: "The City Of Brass" Author: Rudyard Kipling 1909 Here was a people whom after their works thou shalt see wept over for their lost dominion: and in this palace is the last information respecting lords collected in the dust. _The Arabian Nights_ _In a land that the sand overlays--the ways to her gates are untrod-- A multitude ended their days whose fates were made splendid by God, Till they grew drunk and were smitten with madness and went to their fall, And of these is a story written: but Allah alone knoweth all!_ When the wine stirred in their...

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Businesses looking for H1-B employees can now do a job-search in secrecy and hire foreign workers without considering American candidates. If they were required to operate openly, American job-seekers would have a better chance and public pressure might lead to a change in company policy. This is a letter I sent to my congressman and Rep. Tancredo, and I ask you to do the same (after editing the first paragraph to fit your personal circumstances), and to send a shorter version to the editor of your local newspaper. Dear Mr. Tancredo: My husband was recently laid off. Many of the...

- Many living in the West, for example, may know of ... da Vinci, and his interest in flying machines. Less familiar is Abbas bin Firnas who, in 9th Century Muslim Spain, not only made a glider but flew it successfully. Displays use the tale to explain the physics of flight. - Visitors can also learn of the Chinese Muslim Admiral Zheng He and the massive fleet of treasure ships he used to explore the world six centuries ago. Visitors can see a reproduction of the compass that belonged to one of the greatest mariners in world history. Included in...

Eighteen months after her tumultuous tenure in Trenton ended, former Secretary of State Regena Thomas is the centerpiece of a whistle-blower lawsuit that accuses her of ordering subordinates to consider only African-Americans for jobs, grants and loans at a college loan program. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Trenton by the former head of the state's higher-education loan program, charges Thomas and other top officials in former Gov. James E. McGreevey's administration with racial discrimination, misuse of federal funds and retaliating against an official who blew the whistle. Former Higher Education Student Assistance Authority Executive Director Elizabeth Wong...

Jobs Americans Won't Do, Part DCCLXIX [Mark Krikorian] The indefatigable Norm Matloff, a computer science professor at UC Davis, pointed me to this video of an immigration lawyer explaining to clients how to pretend to look for American workers in such a way as to make sure they don't actually find any (it's at about 7:55). The law firm may take the video down once it gets some publicity, so here's the nut graf: And our goal is clearly not to find a qualified and interested U.S. worker. And you know in a sense that sounds funny, but it's what...

... We conservatives have been arguing for some time now that the only way to prevent activist judges from imposing same-sex marriage on America is through a federal constitutional amendment. Last week, the New Jersey court proved us right. The court issued an order giving the state Legislature six months to enact a law legalizing same-sex marriage or its functional equivalent, civil unions for gays. ... "When I vote against it, is the judge going to throw me in jail?" asks Michael Doherty, a Republican assemblyman ... "The court holds that under the equal protection guarantee of Article I, Paragraph...

I am Roman Catholic but feel the desire to take a some breaths with "the other lung," so to speak. Some books by Protestant writers have given me helpful insights, but I know very little about Orthodox works - nothing in our public library system for instance (and there you have to do major sifting to find small 'o' orthodox Christian works.) And didn't find any Orthodox material in our church library, either. Any recommendations for faith-building, faith-expanding, spiritual-wrestling, depression-fighting works? Mrs VS

The doctors want to follow up on some suspicious tests, it might be just an infection, it might be more serious (20 weeks pregnant, pre-eclampsia a possibility) -- please pray that all goes well.

WOMEN are being sold off in "slave auctions" in the arrivals lounges of British airports, say authorities desperate to crack down on the burgeoning trade in trafficking humans. The Crown Prosecution Service said foreign women were being sold as sex workers as soon as they arrived, and police are appealing to men who frequent brothels to contact them in confidence if they believe the prostitutes may be there against their will. In one instance a slave auction took place outside a coffee shop in the arrivals hall of London-Gatwick airport, and it is believed similar auctions have taken place at...

NEW YORK -- Six men were arraigned yesterday, three of them on murder and robbery charges, in connection with the beating death of a financial analyst from Hoboken whose credit cards were taken and used on a spending spree. Manhattan Criminal Court Judge A. Kirke Bartley ordered the three charged with murder and robbery jailed without bail. ---- A felony complaint said the attack on Thomas Whitney Jr., 24, began at Sixth Avenue and West 19th Street after a male yelled, "Get that white (expletive)." ---- Berlin told Bartley a witness saw one of the three murder defendants punch the...

"Where's Molly?" Jeff Daly asked his parents one gray spring afternoon in 1957. The six-year-old Jeff stood staring at the empty chair where his little sister usually sat. After a brief silence, Jeff's father answered, "Molly's not here anymore, but she's fine. It's nothing for you to worry about. Forget it and eat your supper." Over the next several months, when Jeff persisted in asking, "Where's Molly?" he was sent to his room. "She lives somewhere else now and she's happy," his mother firmly told him. "You're not to talk about this anymore." Nearly five decades later, on January 21,...

Girl eats and moves; mother seeks new role By Tracy Jan, Globe Staff | March 5, 2006 A nurse told the mother of Haleigh Poutre during a hospital visit on Tuesday that the severely beaten Westfield girl, whom officials once wanted to let die, has been able to eat scrambled eggs and cream of wheat, and has tapped out drum rhythms during physical therapy, according to the mother's lawyer. But it is unclear when Poutre began eating solid food, and how often she does so. A Department of Social Services worker, who was monitoring the 15-minute visit, has told the...

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On Tuesday, Spence said, he went to Haleigh's room at Baystate and noticed a quiet brown-haired girl lying in bed. In front of her, he said, there were three objects: a yellow duck, a Curious George stuffed animal, and a yellow block. He said a DSS social worker accompanied him, and she said, ''Haleigh, this is Harry." ''Give him the yellow duck," the social worker said, according to Spence's recollection. Haleigh picked up the yellow duck, he said. ''Where's Curious George?" the social worker asked Haleigh. Haleigh then picked up the stuffed animal, Spence said. ''It's an astounding case," he...

Ohio's official non-recount ends amidst new evidence of fraud, theft and judicial contempt mirrored in New Mexico COLUMBUS -- The Ohio presidential recount was officially terminated Tuesday, December 28. But the end comes amidst bitter dispute over official certification of impossible voter turnout numbers, over the refusal of Ohio's Republican Supreme Court Chief Justice to recuse himself from crucial court challenges involving his own re-election campaign, over the Republican Secretary of State's refusal to testify under subpoena, over apparent tampering with tabulation machines, over more than 100,000 provisional and machine-rejected ballots left uncounted, over major discrepancies in certified vote counts...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Hippocratic Oath doctors swear to save lives, not end them. But one doctor accused of doing just that also happens to be the governor of Kentucky, and a lawmaker willing to sign execution orders on death row inmates. "There is a distinct difference between acting as a physician for a patient and acting as a governor for the people of the commonwealth of Kentucky," Gov. Ernie Fletcher, a former family physician and U.S. congressman elected to the state's highest office last year, told FOX News. Last month, Fletcher signed the death warrant for 51-year-old Thomas Clyde...

<p>Door-to-door violence Dover Twp. slaying not first tied to sales company Sunday, June 13, 2004 BY BETH KRESSEL Star-Ledger Staff The 18-year-old man charged with slaying an elderly Ocean County woman Wednesday is a salesman for an Indiana-based company that has had three other employees accused or convicted of violent crimes since 2001.</p>

The Top 20 Most Popular Baby Names For the first time in more than a decade, the year's most popular baby name for boys is not Biblical. Move over Michael and Matthew and make room for Aidan, Jaden, and Caden--the top three boys' names for 2003, according to BabyNames.com. Meanwhile, Madison has hung on for another year as the top name for girls, which as near as anyone can figure comes from the 1984 movie "Splash," starring Daryl Hannah in the role of a mermaid named Madison. Top 20 boys' names: Aidan/Aiden/Aden Jaden/Jayden Caden/Kaden Ethan Caleb Dylan Jacob Jordan Logan...

<p>Families honor their mothers today with perfume, hanging plants, and dinners out. What many of today's mothers want most, however, doesn't come from a store. They want respect, financial recognition, and nothing less than to change the way society looks at motherhood. And they're not waiting for anyone to give it to them.</p>