- "The 23 players on the Iroquois national lacrosse team expected to spend this week vying for a world championship.
"Instead, they spent Friday night divvying up their gear in the driveway outside a Hilton hotel here, having officially declared defeat in their weeklong dispute with the British government over whether they should be allowed to travel using their tribal passports."
- "These revealing data show extreme poverty levels for major groups of color, with very high levels qualifying for reduced-price or free lunches. Among other things the data demonstrate huge problems of structural inequality and racism that seem to be off the white-controlled policy agenda for the 'land of the free and the home of the brave.'”
- "Kings County Nurseries, at the same location more than half a century, is Brooklyn writ small. It is Italian and West Indian, old-fashioned and liberal, pastoral and urban. And now, with the stroller-and-latte set edging in from Prospect Heights and Park Slope, Joe Merola Jr., the founder’s son, is filling shelves with organic products. 'We used to be majority chemical; now it’s very little,' he said. 'Now people are into growing what they’re eating.'
"He sells fig trees, a holdover from his father’s era, and hot peppers, popular with the Trinidadians. His wife, Lisa, who works at the store, has picked up some recipes from their customers; big leaf thyme, a fixture in Caribbean kitchens, is now a standard ingredient in their Staten Island home."
- "Scott Nova, the consortium’s executive director, says Mr. Bozich seems far more committed than most other apparel executives to stamping out abuses — like failure to pay for overtime work. Knights contracts with 30 factories worldwide. At a meeting that the two men had in 2005 to address problems at a Philippines factory, Mr. Bozich floated the idea of opening a model factory.
"Mr. Nova loved the idea. He was frustrated that most apparel factories worldwide still paid the minimum wage or only a fraction above — rarely enough to lift families out of poverty. (Minimum wages are 15 cents an hour in Bangladesh and around 85 cents in the Dominican Republic and many cities in China — the Alta Gracia factory pays $2.83 an hour.)"
- "The letter reads: 'Although you have attended the world's best communication skills courses you have been most successful in growing great hatred and hostility between you and Muslims around the world, but seriously this time you have caused an almost unrepairable [sic] damage.'
"The letter demanded not only that the pages are reinstated but that new rules are introduced which make it a violation of Facebook's terms to post anti-Islamic comments."
- "The woman, Jinyu Kang, an ethnic Korean citizen of China who now lives in New York, had fled a Chinese arrest warrant for giving food and shelter to Korean refugees. Others named in the same warrant and caught by the Chinese police had described beatings, suffocation, electric shocks, sleep deprivation and other forms of torture to get them to disclose details about the human rights group to which they all belonged."
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