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...hustled into waiting Ford Econoline vans and then driven to Shi To National Park, where they attend a ceremony honoring efforts to rebuild after the September 1999 earthquake. Under a stained, blue-red-and-white canopy, the President listens as Nantou's deputy mayor explains how they had to bore through rocks to reopen the highway. A hundred locals sit on white plastic chairs, gawking at the President...
...Phelan says she recruited famous career artists, who painted alone and often paid studio assistants to do everything from wash brushes to manage their archives. Their world bore little resemblance to either academic departments with rigid hierarchies and formal procedures or corporate environments that stress professional boundaries...
Thoke quickly bore down, and struck out three more Bulldogs in the inning, giving her an anomalous four in the frame...
...decided that I was working on one long novel," Erdrich says, sitting in a comfortable chair in Birchbark Books, the store she opened last June in a residential neighborhood in Minneapolis. Strapped to her chest in a Baby Bjorn carrier is Azure, the infant daughter whom the author, 46, bore in early January to an Ojibwe father whose identity she is keeping to herself. Recognizing that all her books are parts of a larger saga eased her mind, she says, about repeating herself. "I stopped being concerned about whether the same characters show up or not. I really...
After interviewing that boy and a 10-year-old who also bore signs of lashing, Georgia officials removed them and 39 other kids from their homes in three separate raids in March. Officials with the Fulton County department of family and children services say they had offered the parents, all House of Prayer members, an alternative: they could agree to refrain from corporal punishment for two days during an investigation into the children's safety. All the parents refused. TV reporters captured harrowing images of crying children being dragged away. Allen and five of his 130 adherents were arrested...