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...overhead to explode harmlessly in the ocean; none has landed nearby. As Williams shows a visitor around her place, she apologizes for the darkness. The orphanage has a generator, but no gas. Williams shares a double bed on wooden slats with four babies. The older kids have metal-frame bunk beds. The mattresses, where they exist, are inch-thick foam pads. Rambunctious kids have torn down pieces of the straw ceiling. Daylight shines through the corrugated tin roof. Williams' main worries are food and medicine. During peacetime, she would get bulgur wheat from the World Food Program. Now she gets...
...project was made possible by a $100,000 grant from the Kenneth and Evelyn Lipper Foundation to preserve the documents. He said that while most librarians do not yet view the web as a suitable preservation medium, the digital repository offers a wider distribution and a longer time-frame. The project’s founders have been experimenting with the website for almost four years...
...accuser, who lives in a comfortable two-story beige frame house with a basketball hoop above the garage door, is already the subject of speculation about her emotional frailty--classmates say she had broken up with her boyfriend and was devastated by the death of a friend--and reports about her active sex life at the University of Northern Colorado, where she has completed her first year. But under Colorado's "rape shield statute," a complainant's previous sexual activity is deemed irrelevant and inadmissible. Rape is an act of violence. Period...
...about to address jittery investors. But some jagged hardware on a conference table ripped the pants of his $3,000 Brioni suit--and that wasn't all. As Listwin put his hand to his hip pocket, he found it covered in blood. Now he has those torn pants framed on the wall opposite his desk. THROUGH FAILURE, reads a plaque on the frame, WE LEARN LESSONS IN HUMILITY...
...other issues among voters ' priorities. Green voters have not gone unnoticed by Democratic presidential hopefuls: At a June forum on the environment sponsored by the League of Conservation Voters and its California affiliate, several of them said they thought the Democrats would have to find a better way to frame the issues the Green Party cares about in order to win those voters back. Last fall, Rev. Al Sharpton was featured at a Green-backed alternative event to the U.S. Conference of Mayors gathering in Madison, WI, where he praised the Greater Milwaukee Green Party...