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Although McDonald has a strong background in child social work, he said his decision also reflects a desire for more free time...
...choreographers also benefited from a strong cast of 25 dancers with a broad range of training and style. “You get totally different perspectives from the cast because of the wide variety of background,” Hoyos says. Tanhehco reports of her dancers, “It is rare to get to work with many male dancers, and I feel grateful to be able to work with men who wouldn’t usually associate with the modern dance community...
...group of five dolls originally created by Hasbro in 1985. When Jem first debuted on shelves, she was meant to serve as the antiBarbie and had a lot more going on than the other dolls in her cohort. She even came with a nice little background story to prove it. Little girls everywhere were fed the tale of Jem: pop diva by night, successful Starlight Records CEO Jerrica Benton by day. Always generous, Benton even donated all of the profits of Starlight Records to an orphanage. But the coolest part about Benton was her transformation—after having...
...Taliban has been savaged. The U.S. and its Afghan allies killed at least 5,000 Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, wounded twice that number and took 7,000 prisoner. The bulk of Taliban conscripts who survived the war shaved, took off their black turbans and faded into the background. At the same time, only four of the top 50 Taliban commanders surrendered or were captured; those four are now held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, has not been found, and is most probably hiding in Uruzgan province, shielded by true believers. But while...
...feel much sympathy for convicts," says Salah Amokrane, a Toulouse municipal council member and opponent of the law. As Amokrane notes, the post-Sept. 11 "context we're living in means the deportation of ethnic Arabs generates even less controversy than it did before." But given Mesbah's background, many people wonder why he's considered Arab or Algerian at all rather than just French. Brought to France when he was only months old by his Algerian-born parents, Mesbah has spent his entire life in Toulouse. A bout of adolescent rebelliousness made him forgo the French citizenship his eight...