Early immigrants slow to learn English (UPI)
MADISON, Wis., Oct. 18 (UPI) -- A study of 19th century immigration finds little evidence earlier generations of immigrants to the United States learned English to survive, research indicates.

The politics of document and document illiteracy of Kurdish politics PART II (Kurdish Media)
The final criterion: the involvement of international actors and being backed up by international law and international guarantees is the most important factor than must be embedded into a political document to make it valid in terms of international law and effective in terms of international power politics.

Israel brand Will Magically Smell Sweeter (Middle East Online)
Israel continues to persecute Christians as well as Muslims, and is said to be planning a reinvasion of half-starved Gaza to crush the remnants of Palestine's democratically-elected government, notes Stuart Littlewood .

Life Partners Holdings Inc. to Host Conference Call (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
WACO, Texas----Life Partners Holdings, Inc. , parent company of Life Partners, Inc., a leader in the secondary life insurance market known as "life settlements," today announced that it will hold a conference call to discuss its financial results for the second quarter ended August 31, 2008.