Word: helene
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...ORLEANS—Her checkbook. Her new dinette set. Her jewelry box with the golden pendant. Helen L. Smith, 70, watched her life, which she had left behind seven months ago, now leave her home. Smith had just returned to her New Orleans home that Friday morning, and seven Harvard undergraduates had met her with heavy gloves and face masks.Now they were gutting her home, carrying her moldy belongings to the curb with aching arms as others tore doors from hinges with crowbars.Smith watched silently, her face hidden by a mask.As the spring break volunteers deposited the debris...
Prepare for a lot of bowing before HELEN MIRREN this year. Maybe even some scraping. In HBO's mini-series Elizabeth I, debuting April 22, Mirren plays the passionate 16th century British monarch. Then, in Miramax's The Queen, due in theaters in the fall, Mirren trades stand-up collars and poufy gowns for pearl strands and tweed skirts for the part of Queen Elizabeth II in a portrait of the royals after Princess Diana's death. "Both Elizabeths share a single-minded sense of dedication--some might say sacrifice--to being a monarch," Mirren says. Elizabeth II has seen...
...CARDS FOR HELEN: TWO QUEENS...
...what does the failed immigration system mean for ordinary people? Just ask Sister Helen Lynn Chaska. Actually, you can't. You will have to ask her family and friends...
...seven kids, Wiebe describes the labor of clearing trees in the ?boreal forest that wraps itself like an immense muffler around the shoulders of North America.? While Wiebe?s recollections tend to ramble and roam, he returns faithfully to the same characters: hard-working Mam and Pah, sickly sis Helen, older and distant brother Dan. Through memories, family sayings, and photographs, he recreates daily life: chores, trips to church, the three-mile trek to the schoolhouse, marriages and deaths, and more chores. It?s not easy living in what he calls ?a pioneer community of three hundred people isolated...