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...flight of Hussein Kamel al-Majid to Jordan last month, along with several relatives, revealed a shocking rift in Iraq's ruling clan. Hussein Kamel is Saddam Hussein's cousin and son-in-law. A true hard-liner, he oversaw Iraq's program to develop weapons of mass destruction and, as he indirectly admits below, was responsible for brutal repression of Shi'ites and Kurds after the Gulf War. In his first major interview with a Western journalist, Hussein Kamel talked to diplomatic correspondent Dean Fischer in Amman. On one matter he was almost certainly dissembling: though he denies...
...Harvard would be big news. She was right: dead by eight AM, coast-to-coast on CNN by nine. Though I was not more than a few thousand feet down the river when the attack occurred, I heard about it first 45 minutes later from my roommate's cousin in California...
...Instead he had contracted human granulocytic Ehrlichiosis, or HGE -- a newly discovered tick-borne disease that has stricken at least 90 people in New York, Minnesota, Wisconsin and a few other states since 1990, resulting in four deaths. The infection is caused by the Ehrlichia bacterium, a distant cousin of the microbe responsible for Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Fortunately, Quinn had gone to specialists who recognized the infection and cured him with the antibiotic doxycycline. "I had no idea it could be fatal," he says. "Looking back, I'm glad I didn't know the severity...
...Paula's death, is a best seller in the U.S., Latin America and Europe. It has brought a new audience to the author, 52, who wrote her first novel, The House of the Spirits, at 40, when she was an exile in Venezuela after the murder of her cousin, former Chilean President Salvador Allende. That novel, in the magical realist style of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, was made into a 1994 film with Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons. Altogether, Allende's four novels and a short-story collection have sold an estimated 10 million copies worldwide. Paula is her first nonfiction...
...adolescent, Allende spent time in La Paz and Beirut with her mother and diplomat stepfather. She returned to Chile at 15, married an Anglo-Chilean engineer at 20 and worked as a journalist on women's and children's magazines. After her cousin's overthrow, she became caught up in the resistance to the dictatorship and was forced into a financially pinched and emotionally isolated exile in Venezuela. Eventually her marriage fell apart, just as her literary career took off. In 1988, on a book tour in California, she fell in love "at first sight" with, and married, an American...