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...moment, though, happy endings like this one remain few. "I'm not going to tell you we have it all figured out yet," says CHA boss Peterson, "but we are willing to tweak the system as we move forward...
...Jersey girl Patti Scialfa--has always been a proxy for the Springsteen audience. The E Streeters don't eat meat sandwiches out of metal lunch boxes, but it's easy to believe that they could. Their 15-year absence from Springsteen's recorded music opened a gulf between the Boss and his core fans, one that The Rising seems intent on closing...
...those heartbreaking realizations that we all must face in our own way at our own time—and I faced it when I ate soup for breakfast. For a few days I had been eating ramen noodles for lunch, and this drew a few derisive snickers from my boss, but nothing like the hurricane of mockery and scorn which enveloped me when I heated up a can of Progresso soup (because I was hungry and didn’t have any traditional breakfast foods at hand) and ate it at 10 in the morning. There was general chaos. Faces...
DIED. JOAQUIN BALAGUER, 95, fedora-donning six-term President of the Dominican Republic; in Santo Domingo. Balaguer succeeded his boss, dictator Rafael Trujillo, winning the presidency in U.S.-controlled elections in 1966. One of Latin America's last caudillos--or benevolent dictators--he maintained power for 22 years despite repressive tactics, establishing a loyal power base, largely through his paternal devotion to the country's poor...
...When his dad was boss, of course, Tommy was beyond the reach of any court, a charmed status that continued even after Suharto Sr. lost power in 1998. Tommy was first arrested in 1999, sentenced to 18 months for graft the following year, and then escaped in November 2000. During his 12 months on the lam, Supreme Court Justice Syafiuddin Kartasasmita, who convicted Tommy on the graft charges, was assassinated. Police finally caught up with Tommy last November, and he was later charged with the murder...