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DIED. MIMI FARINA, 56, folk singer and sister of Joan Baez; of complications from lung cancer; in Mill Valley, Calif. An accomplished vocalist and fixture of the '60s folk scene, Farina founded Bread & Roses, an organization that enlisted well-known artists to perform in prisons, psychiatric facilities, senior centers and homes for abused children. A talented guitar player who began singing with her sister at age 14, she married Richard Farina at 18 (novelist Thomas Pynchon was best man at their wedding) and recorded two albums with him before Richard died in a motorcycle accident in 1966. Their lives...
...walking the main road to school, 15 minutes away. Born in the second year of fighting, the sound is as familiar to her as the bleat of a goat. Like everyone else, she runs for cover in the roadside stalls where her mother usually buys the family's daily bread. She finds herself crouching next to laborer Mohammed Yusuf Gania and two other men, including Gul Mohammed Gania, a mason. Gul picks up Nadiya and the group runs inside a shop. They swing the shutters down and huddle in a corner. But then Nadiya begins crying. Outside, soldiers hear...
...Mike Scarff, commander of the training company at Benguema agrees that leadership has been a problem. As has been "encouraging them to work as an effective, cohesive unit rather than a group of individuals." Fitness is also a worry. Official rations in the Sierra Leone army are a bread roll and coffee for breakfast and then some rice and beans in the later afternoon. That leaves the troops with "no reserves of energy" says Scarff...
...Eugene Mallon lived like a sun king in the south of France, sharing a tile-roofed farmhouse with his strawberry-blond Swedish wife. He read books, put idle thoughts to paper and played in a bridge club every Friday. She baked bread, tended garden and strolled into the nearby village of Champagne-Mouton on market day, tall and delicate, a sight so fair the mayor's tired old heart would stir. The Gold Creek met the Silver Creek near the Mallons' acreage, and all around, the gentlest breeze would set fields of sunflowers ablaze with waves of golden light...
...Bread and circuses is an old concept, but you've got to hand it to VICENTE FOX for giving it some new flavor. Swamped by his lowest approval numbers since taking office, Mexico's President did what any Must-See-TV producer would do--hold a surprise wedding! Fox, divorced since 1991, married his press spokeswoman MARTHA SAHAGUN on the first anniversary of his election, which was also his 59th birthday. Fox tried to keep the nuptials low key, but somehow his wedding video made it onto national television, and all of Mexico saw Fox give Sahagun a delicate peck...