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Monday, July 17, 2006

Chicago Tribune (MCT)

Northwestern University began sending letters and e-mails Friday to about 17,000 student applicants whose personal information may have been stolen from the university's computer system.

By Liu Enming, VOA News

Hillsdale, a town in southern Michigan with 9,000 residents, has lost many jobs to outsourcing. And that is what prompted teenager Michael Sessions to seek a new job -- as mayor.  Going door-to-door and financing his campaign with $700 from his summer job, Sessions won the election last November by a margin of two votes.

Michael Sessions - VOA News photo
Michael Sessions
Pearl S. Buck (birth name Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker) (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was a prolific writer and Nobel Prize winner.

Read Pearl S. Buck's 1937 novel The Patriot, free from the Internet Archive (requires free plug-in)

Pearl S. Buck - wikipedia photo
Pearl S. Buck