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...statement recently. "We just want to know the reason that they killed him," says Mehdi's widow. "He didn't belong to any party, and he's not a Ba'athist. He was only an employee in the bank." Asked how she would confront the soldiers who killed her husband, she says, "I would ask them, Why did you do this to us? Look at our situation. We barely have enough space to sleep...
...welcome the news today, although it is no cause for celebration.' KATE MCCANN, whose daughter Madeleine has been missing for 14 months, after Portuguese investigators closed the case. She and her husband were cleared as suspects...
This is an epistolary novel: we get to know Juliet and her friends through their letters and telegrams to one another. Juliet, a single woman in possession of a promising literary career, is coy about whether she is in want of a husband, but several candidates present themselves regardless, including her publisher Sidney and a rich, handsome American named Markham Reynolds. The countermelody begins when Juliet receives a letter from one Dawsey Adams. He lives on a farm on Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, he explains, and he has acquired a used book with Juliet's name and address...
...fact, there is a broad program, and constituencies that oppose it are using the current void to make their case. The Health Insurance Association of America and its grass-roots allies last week began running a TV commercial that shows a couple studying a summary of the plan. The husband concludes that the goal of setting a national ceiling on health-care spending could end up cutting off benefits to individuals. The wife, looking stricken, replies, ''There's got to be a better way.'' Such ads are having an effect. Immediately after Clinton's September speech, a Washington Post poll...
...worked as a volunteer for Jack Kennedy, made TV commercials, served a stint on LIFE magazine. ''The black bourgeoisie,'' she writes, ''took great pride in its separateness from ordinary black culture.'' It was Lena redivivus, including marriage to a white man--in this case Director Sidney Lumet, the ex-husband of Gloria Vanderbilt. Buckley admits that black history took place for her like news from another planet. The Supreme Court decision desegregating schools had less significance than a scene in Las Vegas featuring an infatuated Marlene Dietrich pursuing Frank Sinatra. The year Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat...