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...pretty strange thing to be given a second chance at life. I still play squash, and I can be with my wife and children and grandchildren a lot more. But has it made me a better person? Alas, I'm afraid I'm the same old, fallible fool...
...chaos surrounding the school seizure and the botched rescue attempt is symptomatic of the way Russian officials treat ordinary people as "cattle." "I teach law," says Kesayev, who heads a local inquiry into the siege. "I tell my students: Try to work to make things better here for your grandchildren?because you won't be able to get this country out of the total mess it's in in time to help your children...
...last much longer. Her Alzheimer’s had reached an advanced stage, and she had been steadily deteriorating for years. The woman who had maintained an unflappable sense of calm as she raised six sons in a four-room house no longer recognized her own sons or grandchildren when they sat next to her. The woman who had taught hundreds of elementary school students over a decades-long career was unable to read or form a coherent sentence...
...bomb and who knew how long he would live? In despair, the lovers tried to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills but failed. Eventually they got married, once it became apparent to her parents that he wasn't going to die young. They had three children and seven grandchildren. "I experienced so much pain, but I am happy now," Tsuboi says. "I can say that I am filled with happiness." - With reporting by Donald Macintyre/Seoul, Yuki Oda/Hiroshima and Toko Sekiguchi/Tokyo
...merriest Christmas in years for Yelena Bonner, wife of Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov. Bonner, who was permitted to leave the U.S.S.R. last month for treatment of heart and eye trouble, gathered around the tree with her mother Ruf, son Alexei, daughter Tatiana, their spouses and her three grandchildren. At the celebration in Newton, Mass., where the families live, there were special gifts brought from the homeland, including fine black caviar and vodka. But the day was tempered with sadness. In two months, Bonner must return to Gorky, where Sakharov remains in "internal exile." While her agreement with Soviet authorities prevents...