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Don’t think of giving your little niece the job of throwing the rice because, like balloons, birdseed, rose petals, and riding into the church on horseback, rice-throwing is explicitly banned...
...claims that the conflict is genocide, as President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell have said. It is "a tribal conflict," said al-Bashir, who came to power in a 1989 coup. The Janjaweed are merely "outlaws or gangsters who are used to being on horseback and holding arms or guns. They are bandits," he said. "It was started by this rebel group that tried to avenge losses against another tribe. And naturally, when one tribe attacks another tribe, there will be losses...
...avoid the temptation of giving Alan too tempestuous of a home life; despite their fights, Frank and Dora are a charismatic couple who love both each other and their son. When Frank begins to laugh at himself after overreacting to a man who has given Alan a disapproved-of horseback ride at the beach, we can see the danger in pathologizing Alan’s behavior as a reaction to his parents—or even, as the play suggests, as any more pathological than that of a normal, imperfect person...
DIED. CHRISTOPHER REEVE, 52, chiseled star of the Superman movies who became even better known for his medical activism after a 1995 horseback-riding accident that left him paralyzed; of an infection from a pressure wound; in Mount Kisco, N.Y. (See Health, page...
In public, Christopher Reeve usually played the stoic, silently enduring the indignities of paralysis. In private, he was more candid. He had vowed, shortly after the 1995 horseback-riding injury that left him a quadriplegic, that he would walk again by his 50th birthday. That milestone came--and went--in 2002. "I'm tired of being noble," he confessed shortly afterward in a long conversation with TIME. "I try to go about this with as much dignity as I can, but not a day goes by when I don't make some effort to get out of this situation...