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...died from an extended illness. Medical bills had drained their savings, leaving the family homeless and living with relatives. Not wanting to burden his father, Pineda struck out on his own, collecting newspapers and bottles, and living on the street for nearly two years. When he was 15, a friend encouraged him to start singing again, beginning Pineda's 25-year career as a cover-band vocalist in the Philippines and Hong Kong...
...Lilian Handlin—a friend of 30 years and fellow historian—wrote in an e-mail that Fleming's intellectual curiosity ran deep. As a scholar of history of science, he read "voluminously" on both sides of the field...
That comment forced Power, 38, to resign as foreign policy adviser from the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. It was while working for Obama that Power met Sunstein, an old friend and colleague of Obama from their days as faculty members at Chicago...
...Twain got older and was beset by personal tragedies like the death of his beloved daughter Susy, his view of mankind grew darker. He once told his friend William Dean Howells that "the remorseless truth" in his work was generally to be found "between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell." But in 1900, when he could no longer stomach the foreign adventures of the Western powers, he came right out and called a pile of it a pile of it. In the previous year...
...month ago 250 miles away from the Horn incident, in Kaufman County, Texas. An elderly man picked up a gun and shot - out his front window - at an "intruder" who turned out to be his 15-year-old neighbor, who was crossing his lawn at night with a friend. The boy survived, but as his friend's mother drove them to the hospital, they were hit by a drunk driver, killing the mother and leaving both boys with even more injuries. The car accident wasn't the old man's fault; the shooting most definitely was. County law-enforcement officials...