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Can an undocumented immigrant become a lawyer?
Can an undocumented immigrant become a lawyer? nbclatino: Jose Manuel Godinez-Samperio was brought to the United States from Mexico by his parents when he was nine years old. Sixteen years later, he had graduated from his Florida high school as class valedictorian, become an Eagle Scout, completed college and law school, and passed the state…
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theatlantic: How Kony 2012’s Big Event Fizzled Out Last Saturday morning, the world was supposed to wake up to city centers plastered with bright red posters telling us to STOP AT NOTHING. Cities and towns were supposed to be covered with the messages of peace and common cause that made themselves known through youth who came out…
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Dr. Manhattan knows all, tells all
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Dr. Manhattan yearns for simpler times
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Dr. Manhattan plays with portals
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But what Berners-Lee is doing, in all his talk of the utility of data, is shifting the value proposition of personal information. He’s reframing digital data as something that has a direct value to the users who generate it — not as some kind of fuzzy extension of identity, but as information that has a…
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emergentfutures: “21st Century Careers and the Decimation of the Middle Class Professions” — I recently attended a Career’s Evening at my 16 year old daughter’s school. The idea was that parents representing typical middle class professions, such as banking, military, accounting, medicine, law and marketing stood around answering questions from the kids, who ranged in…
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blitzermcmillian: “I did not know that a work of mine could be escalated… into such stunning dimensions.” Philip K. Dick wrote this letter after seeing his first glimpse of Blade Runner in a television segment. To the best of the family’s knowledge, this letter has never been previously released to the public.