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When a loan officer turned down the poet’s request, she sent him this poem. He changed his mind. Happy Mother’s Day.

The march was against a massive police crack down on a peaceful student protest on Jadavpur University campus, one of leading universities in the state. The students were sitting-in at their Vice Chancellor’s office, refusing to let him go, until he promised an independent inquiry commission into a case of sexual assault on campus. Their rallying cry was “hok kolorob” or let there be uproar.

The march was against a massive police crack down on a peaceful student protest on Jadavpur University campus, one of leading universities in the state. The students were sitting-in at their Vice Chancellor’s office, refusing to let him go, until he promised an independent enquiry commission into a case of sexual assault on campus. Their rallying cry was “hok kolorob” or let there be uproar.

Latest round showed the power of solidarity, public support, and striking first.

Here’s the real shock: whites are actually more likely than blacks to sell drugs and about as likely to consume them.

Quite simply, the surge of child migrants has stopped. As of August 2014, the number of unaccompanied minors apprehended at the border had fallen back below the previous year's levels.

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