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...better health. Ocasio had resisted treating her diabetes for a dangerously long time, for example, and even after she started going to the clinic, she refused to take her medication. Only after spending a few weeks with Brickell did Ocasio open up enough to say that back in Santo Domingo, her friends had told her that insulin caused blindness and led people to have their limbs amputated. After Brickell heard that, she was able to convince Ocasio that those were symptoms of the disease, not the insulin. For the first time in her life, Ocasio has been taking her insulin...
...lunch, then drove to Buckingham Palace to watch 6,000 schoolchildren sing "Happy Birthday" and wave some 120,000 daffodils. Then the birthday Queen changed into an evening gown and her favorite diamond tiara for a gala "Fanfare for Elizabeth" at Covent Garden, featuring the likes of Placido Domingo, Gelsey Kirkland and a special ballet, created by Sir Frederick Ashton and based on an incident from the Queen's childhood. A grand start to be sure, considering the "official" bash won't come until June...
...addition to fostering the development of new and innovative young mimes and other theatrical performers, Marceau also heads the Marcel Marceau Foundation for the Advancement of Mime. This foundation, supported by celebrities ranging from Placido Domingo to Dustin Hoffman, aims to accumulate and preserve an archive of mime performances, primarily those created or performed by Marceau himself...
...television's showmen labored to exploit Early Bird's versatility. At their best, the programs were as moving and immediate as Houston's great surgeon Michael DeBakey repairing a human heart while fascinated doctors in Geneva looked over his shoulder. Europe watched troop movements in Santo Domingo while bullets still ricocheted across the Caribbean town ... And between the best and the worst that TV had to offer, imaginative men could pick out the promise of a dream born more than a century ago, when the first crude telegraph suggested that man might some day far outreach the limitations...
...last moments before his kidnappers forced him to leave, Toussaint L’Overture said, “In overthrowing me, you have cut down in San Domingo only the trunk of the tree of liberty. It will spring up again by the roots for they are numerous and deep.” In his first public address from the Central African Republic, Aristide drew upon these words to urge his supporters to non-violently resist this U.S.-led regime change. As the poorest of the poor continue to struggle for democracy and equality, the crucial question remains, who will...