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After another bout of silence, Faust interjected: “I think you should take this as a tribute to all the work that...
...December 1984, Greg Page, 50, claimed the World Boxing Association's heavyweight title by knocking out the reigning champ. Though he lost the title the following year, Page continued to fight until a 2001 bout left him with permanent brain damage...
...control in the first place. After alleging the first fatality from swine flu was a 39-year-old woman from the poor southern Mexican state of Oaxaca who died on April 13, Health Secretary Jose Córdova conceded that Edgar Hernandez, a four-year-old boy, who survived a bout of flu in February and March, had actually had the virus, as tests have now shown. Local authorities had raised alarm bells about a potent outbreak of flu in the boy's village, La Gloria, but the federal government had not reported the development to the World Health Organization. Officials...
...topic could not be more timely. Wrong was already writing when, in January 2008, Kenya descended into its worst bout of intertribal violence since independence - a jarring episode that left at least 1,000 dead and that Wrong attributes to the kind of tribally based corruption that Githongo seeks to end. Ultimately, he was not successful. But the real surprise of Wrong's book is that someone like him was willing...
...kicks off Wednesday at the historic Virginia Theater in downtown Champaign, and will screen a dozen titles including Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg, Ramin Bahrani's Chop Shop and Courtney Hunt's Frozen River, which took home the top prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. After a long bout with thyroid cancer and complications that left him unable to speak, Ebert made his first public appearance in nearly a year at the 2007 Ebertfest. "We spend too much time hiding illness," he wrote in a press release, issued just prior to the fest. "There is an assumption that...