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...destruction in Lebanon took me back to World War II and images of the devastation in Europe. But sadder still were the pictures of the young boys in Hizballah's al-Mahdi scout club being taught to hate their fellow man. They are being robbed of their childhood and often their life too, all in the name of religion. Derek J. Waite Toronto As the saying goes, it is better to allow 1,000 criminals to go free than convict one innocent person. But the Israelis have turned that maxim on its head: they seem to think it is better...
...minds that we put a lot of expensive ingredients and skilled technique into making canelés, and they're the same price as cupcakes," she says of what artisanal bakeries have discovered is the most profitable dessert not made by Hostess. But Myers also loves being transported to her childhood via the American madeleine. She not only buys cupcakes but also bakes them on weekends for her little sister...
Short-lived jobs are a theme of Karr's résumé. In the spring of 2000, while studying early-childhood education at the University of North Alabama, Karr became a student teacher at the Kilby Professional Laboratory School. But school administrators soon called him in to discuss complaints about his behavior with fifth-grade girls. Karr failed to show for the meeting. Shortly thereafter, he dropped out of North Alabama, just weeks before graduation...
...father has Alzheimer's. The ad is about the working-class modesty of the Laffey family. The candidate is going door to door on Lionel Avenue in Coventry, R.I., on a soft summer evening. He is accompanied by a mob that includes his wife and five children, plus assorted childhood friends of his and their children...plus a clutch of campaign workers trailed by a very large recreational vehicle plastered with yellow-and-blue laffey for senate signs. A mystical average-folks communion is taking place: a whole lot of folks on Lionel Avenue have been watching the local news...
...college (Bowdoin, and then Harvard Business School). But the family story was far more complicated than that. His eldest brother, whom Laffey describes as a "promiscuous homosexual," died of aids. His elder brother and a younger sister suffer from schizophrenia. "These guys saved me," he says, pointing toward his childhood pals blitzing the suburban street in Coventry. "We were a tribe. Their parents took me in. I only made it out because of them." He went on to manage an investment bank and then came home to Cranston, R.I., ran for mayor and helped save the city from bankruptcy...