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...lawyers were too timid to handle. In 2000 she helped document allegations that conservative clerics and politicians were behind vigilante attacks on reformers. The revelations embarrassed prosecutors, and Ebadi was jailed for 23 days on defamation charges. "She was worried, but she didn't let that stop her," her husband Javad Tavassolian, 60, told TIME. "She is very brave...
...investigative reporter who in 1994 joined the Sunday Independent, Ireland's top newspaper, Guerin made headlines with stories about Dublin's underworld. Within months of her first scoops, assailants fired gunshots into the cottage she shared with her husband and their son. In 1995 she confronted drug lord John Gilligan, who smashed her face in. The next day he told her, "If you write a word about me, I will find your boy and kidnap him and rape him. I am going to kill you if you write a word about me." (Of course, she published the threat.) Guerin...
...excerpts present the true personality of an American President who survived the cold war era. The words reveal Reagan's humanity and his sensitivity, not only to great events but also to his roles as father, husband and friend. The letters changed my view of Reagan, whom I had viewed mostly as a political leader. Deep inside the man is the soul of a person who understood life and learned much from it. RODERICK DARWIN P. SANTOS New York City...
...cause of her dismay? Call it family-happiness envy. Linda watched her sister-in-law Jan chat with her two grown children as five grandchildren roughhoused on the lawn; everyone lived nearby, and gatherings like this one were spontaneous and commonplace. For Linda and her husband Bill, on the other hand, visits to their two children were planned well in advance and punctuated by long absences. "Our children were living 3,000 miles away," she says. "We had lots of phone calls, and we got together for special occasions, but that's not the same as casual, no-special-reason...
...although he did his best to keep in touch, he felt he had missed out on big pieces of her life. So in 1998 he and his wife Gloria, 52, moved from their longtime home in Akron, Pa., to Beaverton, Ore. Now they live seven miles from Fanita, her husband and her three children. "We concentrate on simple things, like taking walks or going to the park," says Harold. "We also do birthday and holiday celebrations, but the regular things are what keep us going...