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...years ago, that made him a North Korean spy. The agency's interrogators beat him with a metal pipe, screaming at him to confess that he'd been sent by Pyongyang to foment revolution. "When I passed out, they'd throw ice water on me," recalls Kim, now a frail grandfather. "Or they'd put a wet towel over my face and pour water on it so I couldn't breathe. When I passed out, they'd beat me again...
...that it would be entirely open to other photographers and artists." Located on a tiny impasse in Montparnasse, the artists' quarter where Cartier-Bresson spent much of the late 1920s and '30s, the foundation boasts two 60-sq-m galleries, a library and archives. Cartier-Bresson is a little frail now, at 94, slightly unsteady without his cane and hindered by a hearing problem that is at times severe. In conversation, he often looks to his wife for assistance, but he remains as feisty as ever. He hasn't lost his enthusiasm for painting, and is happy to talk about...
Jack Mendelsohn, 68, a retired State Department official living in Washington, obtained home care for his mother in Chicago by working with Karp's Evanston, Ill., agency. His mother, who was frail and becoming forgetful, was receiving care she was dissatisfied with. Karp found a more suitable attendant and supervised her with regular home visits. Karp's fee was $90 an hour, and home care cost $125 a day--all paid for by Mendelsohn. His mother died last year, at 91. "You need a professional on-site to supervise this kind of continuous care, check in with the doctors...
...against one of the MILF's last remaining strongholds near the town of Pikit. The generals initially said they were after a band of kidnappers. But the MILF took a pounding, just weeks before more peace talks were to be held in Kuala Lumpur. Feeling betrayed, the MILF's frail 61-year-old spiritual leader, cleric Hashim Salamat, made an emotional appeal for all Muslims with access to arms to "fight until death." In a taped speech broadcast on Feb. 24 by a Cotabato regional radio station, he said, "We are pushed to the wall, we have to fight back...
...course, the airlines are already in the midst of a pretty bad scenario, as the report notes. A few causes of the pain include a frail underlying economy, high fuel prices, fear of terrorism and war, and increased security costs. The moribund combination leads to gushing red ink for the airlines. But there has been a silver lining for consumers: airfares are lower than they were in 1988 in nominal, not inflation-adjusted dollars...