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...year-old boy opened fire in a Santee, Calif. school, killing two of his fellow students and wounding 13 others. Further afield, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon completed the appointments to his new cabinet, and 60 people died when a bridge collapsed in Portugal. Meanwhile, in Palm Beach County, Fl. a dolphin which had been rescued from a shark attack last year was returned to the sea after recovering from its injuries...
...dance-off, held yearly by the National Dance Alliance in Daytona Beach, Fla., pits 70 collegiate teams against each other...
...With reporting by Brad Liston/Rockingham, Michelle McCalope/Mooresville, Collette McKenna Parker/Daytona Beach, Eric Roston/New York and Joseph Szczesney/Detroit...
Restaveks who do get away have grim stories to tell. A young man recently went to Romer with hideous burns from an iron, a punishment by his West Palm Beach, Fla., "host" family whenever he didn't press their clothes correctly. Aside from losing their childhood, restaveks suffer separation from their own families. At the Maurice Sixto shelter in Port-au-Prince, Ania Derice, 18, recalls how her parents in rural central Haiti, who couldn't afford to feed and clothe her, sent her to a house in Port-au-Prince to be a restavek. When Ania was 12--after...
DIED. STANLEY KRAMER, 87, producer-director and grudging bearer of the label "message filmmaker" who received nine Oscar nominations but never won; in Los Angeles. Kramer used film to wrestle with such knotty themes as racism (The Defiant Ones), nuclear holocaust (On the Beach) and Nazi war crimes (Judgment at Nuremberg). Toward the end of his career, critics routinely panned his films--even box-office successes like Guess Who's Coming to Dinner--as oversimplified and maudlin...