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...remembers the reason why. Sitting on the floor of her dimly lit stone hut as chickens and small children wander outside the door, Akuma describes the day when rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) came to her home to murder two of her sons and abduct her daughter to be a sex slave. Since then, the years have been a blur to the 60-year-old widow. And many who have suffered like her through the 20-year civil war just want to go home. Even if the cost is justice...
...poring over a few last-minute math equations on a bench shortly before testing began. Her mother, anxiously fanning the girl as she studied, once fought for the communist side in the Vietnam War and had recently retired from a state-run factory, but she dreams her daughter can someday work in banking or finance. "It's not like the old days," she said. "If children don't have a university degree, it's really difficult to get a good...
...Bush: a passion for running, and perhaps also the wordless empathy of the man's man, fueled on testosterone - both were once heavy drinkers, both now abjure the bottle. Campbell regularly enters competitive races to raise money for leukemia research (his best friend and his best friend's daughter died of the disease). One check he keeps as a souvenir came from Bush. The two men were sitting in a room in Northern Ireland between set-piece public occasions when the President spotted a newspaper article Campbell had written about his next marathon. "He says, 'Should I give...
...President Bush: a passion for running, and perhaps also the wordless empathy of the man's man, fuelled on testosterone. Both were once heavy drinkers, both now abjure the bottle. Campbell regularly enters competitive races to raise money for leukemia research (his best friend and his best friend's daughter died of the disease). One check he keeps as a souvenir came from Bush. The two men were sitting in a room in Northern Ireland between set-piece public occasions when the President spotted a newspaper article Campbell had written about his next marathon. "He says, 'Should I give...
...decides to have a baby alone. One female critic returned more than once to trash the play. "She said this was a cop-out, my saying women could be happy having a baby alone," the playwright says. Last year Wasserstein, still single at 49, gave birth to a daughter, Lucy Jane, conceived with the sperm of a friend she won't identify. "If I put Heidi out now, people would just say, 'Yeah, that's true,'" she says, shrugging...