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...first things Roman Catholics do when they enter the confessional is utter how long it has been since their last confession. But Franca Gargiulo can't remember the last time. Gargiulo is a spiritually thoughtful woman who went to Catholic school as a girl and at 44 still attends Mass at St. Dominic Catholic Church in San Francisco. Confession--telling your sins to a priest and receiving absolution--is one of her faith's seven sacraments, but for Gargiulo it now seems as anachronistic as prayer veils and meatless Fridays. "It lost its efficacy for me," says Gargiulo...
...hours. In the end, the testimony of a young woman who at 14 had been "placed" in an arranged marriage to her cousin by Warren Jeffs, 51, leader of a polygamist sect, secured Jeffs' conviction. He now faces life in prison as an accomplice to rape for directing the girl to submit to her husband, who was charged with rape the day after Jeffs was found guilty...
...invited a woman he had met at the gym, Jessica Sklar, to his show. In his current act, Seinfeld jokes, "I was dating for 25 years. Do you know how exhausting that was? Do you know how much acting fascinated I did?" But Jessica, whom he calls a "neighborhood girl," actually did fascinate him. Like Seinfeld, she had grown up on Long Island, and of all the nice Jewish girls available to him, he says, "she was the nicest." There was one catch: two months earlier, she had married Eric Nederlander, the son of a prominent New York family...
Among Bührle's personal favorites, says the foundation's curator, Lukas Gloor, was Corot's A Girl Reading, because of "the painter's virtuoso handling of the color red." But anyone visiting this gem of a museum is bound to find a favorite of his or her own. 172 Zollikerstrasse; tel: (41-44) 422 00 86; www.buehrle.ch...
...would do well at African poverty in the 21st century?" In Nyamata, Jacqueline Nyiramayonde, 42, describes her journey across the country in 1994, as she fled the genocide with her children. She was living in Kigali when the killing started, then spent a week with her boy and girl hiding behind a cupboard in a neighbor's house. When the killing reached the street outside, the neighbor took her and the children to a military camp. The génocidaires showed up there asking for them, so he hid the family under some sacks of rice on a truck heading...