Monica, now 27, still remembers the three of them dancing on the bed. She laughs when she recalls the day Freddy flipped a three-wheeler on top of his brother. Before tending to him, he came inside to eat a tortilla.How was it possible that she could lose them both?They were her baby brothers, the boys she adored. She devoted so much time to them that she never even wanted children of her own. The brothers followed each other into the Army. Freddy first, then Andrew.They came home that way, too. Freddy, then Andrew....
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 Immigrants in Limbo 5 Years After 9/11 |
The woman was widowed when her husband died in the terrorists' attack on the World Trade Center, whose twin towers once would have been seen from the windows of the meeting room where she sits with her attorney. But this Sept. 11 widow is an illegal immigrant - one of about 25 identified as having lost a family member in the disaster - and she could face deportation at any time. So could her 17-year-old son, and she begs him to carry his father's death certificate in case someone asks him why he is in the U.S. ``I can't get a driver's license. I can't go to apply for a job. I can't work. I can't study. I can't fly. I can't do anything,'' the 38-year-old woman from Ecuador said this past week. She spoke on condition that her name not be used, for fear she might be deported. A New York City group is urging Congress to pass legislation that would grant permanent residence status to the illegal immigrants who lost family members on Sept. 11. ...
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Editor - 12:45:00 11-18-06
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| Riddle of the anonymous fortune found in Spanish banks |
Spanish police are looking for the mystery owner of €1.8bn (£1.2bn), held in several banks, after tax inspectors raised concerns that the accounts might contain laundered money. A court order has frozen the accounts, but the owner or owners have yet to step forward.If the cash belongs to one person, it would make them one of the 10 wealthiest people in Spain and owner of one of the world's 500 biggest fortunes. The search follows police raids on four banks and several other financial businesses in Madrid and Barcelona a fortnight ago.A police spokesman said the money appeared to have originated in Spain and to have been filtered through a network of trusts and other companies based in various offshore havens...
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Editor - 12:42:00 11-18-06
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| Protesters, police clash at finance meeting |
A meeting of top financial officials from around the globe opened Saturday against a backdrop of 3,000 marching protesters, some of whom turned violent, pelting police with stones, bottles and smoke grenades.Some 3,000 protesters marched on a downtown hotel where the Group of 20 meeting of finance ministers and central bankers opened, but most of the violence appeared to center around a group of about 200 demonstrators dressed in white coveralls with red bandanas tied around their faces.Police struck out with batons as protesters rushed the barrier in at least two places, and at one site overturned fences and broke through the initial cordon, according to Associated Press reporters who witnessed the incidents. A number of officers were injured, but only one seriously. Two demonstrators were arrested, and more arrests were expected, Victoria state Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon said. There were no reports of injured protesters....
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| Desperate to Flee Abuse and Hardship, Scores of Afghan Women Commit Suicide by Fire |
Blood dripped down the 16-year-old girl's face after another beating by her drug addict husband. Worn down by life's pain, she ran to the kitchen, doused herself with gas from a lamp and struck a match. Desperate to escape domestic violence, forced marriage and hardship, scores of women across Afghanistan each year are committing suicide by fire. While some gains have been made since the fall of the Taliban five years ago, life remains bleak for many Afghan women in the conservative and violence-plagued country, and suicide is a common escape. Young Gulsum survived to tell her story. Her pretty face and delicate feet were untouched by the flames, but beneath her red turtleneck sweater, floral skirt and white shawl, her skin is puffy and scarred. More than a month after her attempt, her gnarled hands still bleed. ...
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| Gonzales Blasts Surveillance Critics |
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales contended Saturday that some critics of the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program were defining freedom in a way that poses a ``grave threat'' to U.S. security. Gonzales was the second administration official in two days to attack a federal judge's ruling last August that the program was unconstitutional. Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday called the ruling ``an indefensible act of judicial overreaching.'' Gonzales told about 400 cadets from the Air Force Academy's political science and law classes that some see the program as on the verge of stifling freedom rather that protecting the country. ``But this view is shortsighted,'' he said. ``Its definition of freedom - one utterly divorced from civic responsibility - is superficial and is itself a grave threat to the liberty and security of the American people.'' ...
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