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Seven-year-old Adam, whose autistic brother Jacob is 11, says, "I can't really play games with Jacob like I can with my cousin Eric [also 11]. Jacob likes to play games on the computer - but by himself, not with me. He gets too angry if he loses and then doesn't want to play." Adam's father, Paul, says soberly, "I'm sure Eric represents the brother Adam might have had." (Read "A Link Between Autism and Testosterone...
...Eric Volz was found guilty of murdering his Nicaraguan ex-girlfriend Doris Ivania Jimenez. She had been found hogtied, raped and strangled to death in the back of her clothing boutique in the touristy beach town of San Juan del Sur on Nicaragua's Pacific coast. However, a second man, Julio Martin Chamorro, a small-town bully with the reputation of being a "tourist leech," stood trial alongside Volz and was also found guilty of the murder. Both he and Volz were sentenced to 30 years in prison...
...Yeah, right. That cool vanished on Monday, with the unveiling of Sarkozy's new love interest - the singer and former supermodel Carla Bruni, whose previous companions include Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton. The conservative daily newspaper Le Figaro - which strongly supports Sarkozy - on Monday splashed a quarter-page photo of Bruni on its front page, which is typically reserved for dry political news, under the headline: "The president's girlfriend." Bruni's photo appeared next to an article predicting a tough week ahead for Sarkozy's reform program, over which trade unions are planning mass strikes. The President's happier...
...holiday shopping and wintery mix, this film succeeds admirably. If nothing else, Nicholson and Freeman may just convince their audience to take time to pause during life and indulge—it’s impossible to know when everything may come crashing down. —Staff writer Eric M. Sefton can be reached at Esefton@fas.harvard.edu...
...after much breathless speculation, George Mitchell named names. Eighty six, in fact, in his long-awaited report on steroid abuse in baseball released Thursday. Among them: 55 hitters, 31 pitchers and 33 active players on a list that ranged from legends (Barry Bonds) to all-stars (David Justice, Eric Gagne, Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield and Miguel Tejada) to staples of the transaction column (Josias Manzanillo, Nook Logan...