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...Pakistani peacekeepers died may not be "the Eisenhower of Somalia," as he has described himself. But he is also not the simple thug that the U.S. has made him out to be. The sixtyish former ambassador to India remains the most prominent figure in the powerful Habr Gadir clan and a heavyweight in the country's precarious power balance. He is widely respected by Somalis for his leadership in ousting former dictator Mohammed Siad Barre and for his military successes on behalf of his clan. His anti-U.N. and -U.S. radio addresses sparked a vigorous response: riots convulsed Mogadishu...
...Henson, the creator of the Muppets, made it okay to be green, even if it wasn't easy. Dr. Seuss made it fun to be red and blue (as long as you were a fish). As the head of the Brady clan, Robert Reed gave us all room to be groovy and made it acceptable for men to get perms. And Michael Landon championed the spirit of adventure on the American frontier on "Little House on the Prairie...
...unfinished, in some cases unstarted, tasks the Americans are handing over are staggering. Somalia's underlying problems -- the absence of any central government, the lack of basic security, the clan warfare and banditry, the destruction of the country's infrastructure -- have not significantly improved. Charged with broad responsibility for national repair and reconciliation, the U.N. troops will have much more to do than the U.S.-led force. They will be more lightly armed, deploying weapons such as mortars but no tanks or heavy artillery, and they will be stretched over the whole of Somalia, not just the southern and central...
...sister Vanessa posed exquisitely in front while the workaday members of the family -- Lynn, her brother Corin and mother Rachel Kempson -- stood demurely behind. She doesn't come out and say so, but the grouping was painfully apt. While acting seems to be a genetic imperative for the clan (five generations have worked in the business), only Michael and Vanessa have been touched by the magical ability to make transcendence look effortless. He was among the greatest of a towering generation that included Olivier, Richardson and Gielgud; she is incomparably the finest actor, male or female, in the English-speaking...
...feels the same about the Rudnick clan of Piscataway, N.J. Paul's father Norman was a physicist at Gulton Industries, which, Paul says, "developed a lot of things that to this day I do not understand: capacitors, transistor devices that would go into everything from Osterizers to rocket ships." Later he edited one of the first textbooks on AIDS. Selma has worked for Partisan Review, for the Pennsylvania Ballet and now for a Philadelphia concert producer. Paul's older brother Evan, a jack-of-all-trades, lives near Ithaca, N.Y. "He has long hair and a beard and is very...