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Mike Cianciarulo, president and chief executive of Earth Fare, a six-store natural-supermarket chain with headquarters in Asheville, N.C., also knows firsthand what can happen when retirees have no game plan. Many seniors seek part-time employment at Earth Fare not because of the discounts on meals and purchases but because they're bored. "For the most part, when they stay home, they sit there waiting for an illness," says Cianciarulo...
Chen Kaige has done his time in the dungeon of film pessimism. The Chinese director's best-known works, Farewell My Concubine and Temptress Moon, are epics of loss and betrayal. Chen knows these pangs firsthand: as a teenager during the Cultural Revolution, he was forced to denounce his father, a distinguished filmmaker. But one streak in him runs deeper than despair: the need to dramatize the social process that shapes boys into men. In virtually all his films--from his 1984 Yellow Earth to his new Together--a child falls under a teacher's benign or malign spell. Chen...
...America ready? The White House brushed aside criticisms of the allied strategy by pointing to rising public support for the war effort. "People are seeing firsthand that there are some fierce battles going on," says a senior Administration official. "It's steeling the public." While Iraqi officials gloated that the invaders did not have the stomach to bear the casualties inflicted on their forces, a different phenomenon unfolded in the war rooms in Washington, London and Qatar and in the coalition foxholes and camps scattered across the Iraqi desert; the grit of battle and the prospect of losses to come...
What an excellent report by Michael Duffy and Mark Thompson! General Franks is an outstanding leader of men, especially enlisted soldiers. I know from firsthand experience, having served close to him as General John Tilelli's driver during the Gulf War. Franks always kept our morale high with his great stories and humor. MIKE BALERO San Diego, Calif...
...thousands of U.S. and British troops. Saddam is a vile dictator who has brought misery to his people and many others in the states that surround him. I have done legal work on behalf of Iraqi refugees who were appealing refusals of requests for asylum in Britain and know firsthand of the torture, terror and butchery of the Iraqi regime. PAUL FRANCIS HANLEY Cheshire, England...