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Earlier this month, dozens of Guatemalan police, soldiers and government officials raided Casa Quivira, a foster home in the colonial town of Antigua. They took custody of 46 babies and accused the home of failing to issue the proper paperwork for adoptions. Worse, says Carmen de Wennier, Guatemala's Secretary for Social Welfare, Casa Quivira is being investigated for illegally trafficking infants, an accusation that its owners vehemently deny: "If these children were bought in the womb," de Wennier says, "that is a crime...
...What part of your game would you like to change the most? -Mari Carmen Carmona, Antequera, Spain My serve. I'm always working on it harder, trying to get better. It's a technical problem, and it's difficult, but I am always working hard on it, every...
...What event in your childhood had the most impact on the way you now look at the world? -Don Carmen Schimizzi, Rochester, NY It would probably be the early films my mother took me to when I was just a baby. When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor...
...Styles range from Beninese to Brazilian to Bowie - a touch added courtesy of legendary producer Tony Visconti. And the album features a dazzlingly diverse set of collaborators - among them Alicia Keys, Branford Marsalis, Peter Gabriel, Mali's Amadou and Mariam, Ziggy Marley, German singer Joy Denalane and Italian Carmen Consoli. Some tracks almost seem designed to explain why they call it world music. Pearls, for example, is a Beninese cover of a Sade original that opens with the guitar and maracas of Carlos Santana, who is then joined by the American balladeer Josh Groban and Kidjo, in duet, singing: "There...
...Carmen P.I. Collyns