BAGHDAD — A second exodus has begun here, of Iraqis who returned after fleeing the carnage of the height of the war, but now find that violence and the nation's severe lack of jobs are pulling them away from home once again.
First came the Palestinians – those who lost their homes when Israel was created in 1948, and a second exodus in the wake of the 1967 war.
Now we hear that "A second exodus has begun [in Iraq], of Iraqis who returned after fleeing the carnage of the height of the war, but now find that violence and the nation's severe lack of jobs are pulling them away from home once again".
Only a half-decade after Iraqi businessmen fled civil war in their country, a second exodus is depleting another stronghold of Mesopotamian enterprise.
These departures should be distinguished from a second exodus after around 10 minutes of many productions: in that case, the problem is right ticket, wrong show.
Nor can its remaining students receive federal grants and loans, a near assurance of a second exodus that may make it harder for the college to become financially sound, and, subsequently, regain its accreditation.
China's economic boom in the last decade has brought to shore a third wave: an exodus of 274,000 Chinese students in the last year alone, representing the largest group of internationals studying in America.
Homo erectus, the big-brained hominid thought to have made humankind's first exodus out of Africa, is accepted as one of the many intermediate stages between a chimplike ancestor and modern H. sapiens.
TEMPE, ARIZONA--The long-legged, relatively big-brained hominid called Homo erectus has long been considered the Moses of the human family--the species that led the first exodus out of Africa more than 1.5 million years ago.
Ms. Burke, who arrived in Mr. Hynes's office in January after graduating from law school, is not the only one leaving: One of Mr. Hynes's top deputies, Michael F. Vecchione, last week became the first in a likely exodus of senior aides before Kenneth P. Thompson, a Democrat who unseated Mr. Hynes in the election, takes over.
