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...director and producer of the film; Fred Wellman, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army; and Alex Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. The documentary will air on HBO on Oct. 10, which would have been Daniel Pearl’s 43rd birthday...
...create opportunities for the poor. "Most of these boys can't read. How can they find a place in the market? So they work for dealers. You need to give them an option." They certainly need something. Now retired from the prison service, Drauzio Varella, in May, celebrated his birthday in a bar run by a former guard and his wife. "We were drinking until 1 a.m.," remembers Drauzio Varella. "The next day, the pcc entered the bar and killed my friends." It will take more than campaign promises to heal a city as scarred as São Paulo...
...July 3, Rebekah and I flew to Rancho Mirage, Calif., to celebrate my stepfather's 90th birthday. My mother hosted a party in the main ballroom of a swank hotel, the Lodge, for more than 60 family members and friends. Inevitably, when the subject of my accident came up and led to admiring comments, I felt a familiar twinge of guilt and embarrassment. I still couldn't embrace the notion of my so-called heroism...
After 15 years, the Department of African and African American Studies is changing hands. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, the Thomas professor of history and of Af-Am, is the second woman to lead the department, three years shy of its 40th birthday. Former chair Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., who is Du Bois professor of the Humanities, will continue directing the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research...
...deputies on earth. The legitimacy of the Islamic system and the credibility of the establishment clergy are founded on the Twelfth Imam. Which is why the President mentions him at every opportunity, why the Jamkaran pilgrimage site is becoming a small city. And of course, why his birthday is celebrated with unparalleled passion, at high volume...