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...former public defender turned stay-at-home mom who cracks cases while the baby naps. As Chabon answers questions, the dog barks. Waldman picks a piece of fluff off her husband's face. Sophie's school calls with the news that Sophie just threw up. This would help explain why, in order to write, Chabon stashes himself away every morning in a small cottage behind the house, with his Bakelite radio, his framed original comic-strip panels and his Roberto Clemente baseball card...
CALL YOUR LENDER IMMEDIATELY. Explain why you're having difficulty making payments, how long that difficulty will last and what will have to be done to resolve it. Be prepared to provide financial details, including monthly income and expenses. The goal is to get the lender on your side, says mortgage lender James Nutter Jr. of Kansas City, Mo. "So do not wait for the lender to call you. If you call them, they will look upon that as you trying to not shirk your responsibility...
Muslims know it, but they don't want to admit that something is wrong with Islamic law, Shari'a. They fear that if they voiced their opinion, it would endanger Islam as a whole. How else to explain the support for the Shari'a court that sentenced Lawal to death by stoning as punishment for adultery and allowed the man she was involved with to walk free? As Jesus said, with regard to the woman caught in adultery, Any one of the executioners who has not sinned should be the first to cast a stone. BUNMI AKINSEMOLA Akure, Nigeria...
...conceit is this: 11 directors from five continents each make a film, running 11 minutes and 9 seconds. Some episodes find subtlety, humor, parable in the world's reaction to the event. In Iran (the segment is directed by 22-year-old Samira Makhmalbaf), a teacher desperately tries to explain the meaning of the attack to schoolkids who think the worst calamity is when the village well overflows. In Burkina Faso (the director is Idrissa Ouedraogo), some boys spot a man who looks just like Osama bin Laden and scramble to capture him for the $25 million ransom. The Japanese...
...South Africa's official languages into its pedagogue- approved scripts, Takalani Sesame is seen by an estimated half-million kids a week. It teaches basic skills and rules of behavior, and tries to help children understand and enjoy South Africa's multiracial culture. Not so easy to explain is the reality of an AIDS epidemic that affects almost one in nine South Africans, including about 250,000 children. The number of orphans who have lost their parents to AIDS is expected to approach 2 million by 2010. And a major obstacle in the fight against the disease is the stigma...