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...EASTER PARADE...
...George Soros--funded Campaign for America's Future has launched newspaper ads accusing Louisiana Republican Jim McCrery of supporting Bush's plan because investment companies donated to his campaigns. A top Republican adviser says members are telling him they will need better ammunition before facing constituents again during the Easter recess. If the momentum can't be turned around by then, an already difficult fight will start to look hopeless. --By Massimo Calabresi. With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr., Matthew Cooper and Karen Tumulty
Carolyn saw news of the attack on television at the school district's bus depot, where she is a dispatcher. "When I saw the attack on the convoy on TV at work, I knew it was Matt's," she says. On Easter Sunday, an Army major hand-delivered letters to Maupin's parents informing them that Matt was missing. The next day, the Army stormed Carolyn's home, where Matt had lived before shipping out. "There must have been 20 of them," Keith says. "There was a stress officer, a chaplain, a casualty-assistance officer." Neighbors plied the Maupins with...
...casting director working on Marco Bellocchio's film, La Balia. At the time, she didn't have the money to go to Rome for the audition. But a month later, Bellocchio still hadn't found his heroine and Sansa, whose grandmother had sent her money to come home for Easter, was determined to seize the opportunity. After six auditions, she got the part. "She was just a girl when I chose her for La Balia," says Bellocchio, "with a delicacy, a modest beauty, almost old-fashioned. She was outside the canon of current beauty." While Sansa's sensuality makes...
...Easter Island is one of the most isolated patches of land in the world, 2,300 miles off the coast of Chile, a civilization in a bottle. Diamond uses archaeological data to meticulously piece together its decline. Despite its current denuded state, it turns out that Easter Island was at one time home to the largest species of palm tree in the world. It seems the Easter Islanders overtaxed their tiny home's unusually fragile ecosystem. Once they chopped down all the palms, they couldn't make canoes to go fishing in, and soil erosion devastated any attempts at agriculture...