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...wanted to burst out, How can you talk like this? I know I have to stay strong for the kids. We all know we have to do wills. But it just slaps you in the face to hear people talking about it that way." She knows that her husband's job is as dangerous as any other. Beets is a grenadier, in charge of four other soldiers who would go into battle crammed, like bullets in a magazine, into the tiny, noisy, jouncing rear compartment of a Bradley fighting vehicle. Their job is to clear enemy forces before the rest...
...days for 24 lawsuits," Lyudmila Trunova said bitterly as she walked out of the Tverskoi district court in Moscow last week. Nobody was very surprised when Judge Marina Gorbacheva - brusquely and without explanation - rejected three and deferred 21 suits against the city of Moscow brought by Lyudmila's husband, Igor, on behalf of victims and families involved in last October's Chechen hostage crisis. "Everything is clear now," Igor said. "The other complaints will also be struck down." Trunov argued that, under Russian antiterror law, the city should compensate his 61 clients for the three-day siege of a Moscow...
...Geling Yan, author of The Lost Daughter of Happiness, was already a critically acclaimed writer before moving to the U.S. in 1989. Her husband, linguist Lawrence A. Walker, is the English translator of her first book published in America. Yan wanted to switch to writing in English but found the transition difficult. "The youth of my generation," she says, "was wasted in reciting from Mao's Little Red Book. I learned English rather late. As for Chinese, I already had my own style." Just last year, after living in the U.S. for more than a decade, Yan began screenwriting...
Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri and her husband, Taufik Kiemas, rang in 2003 in style. They celebrated New Year's Eve at the presidential palace in Bali, where Megawati crooned Indonesian classics from the 1970s. Earlier that same day, they had celebrated Taufik's birthday and launched his book Without the People Leadership Means Nothing at the five-star Grand Bali Beach Hotel...
...warning from the military to stay in line, the protesters have said they won't try to topple the government. Still, Megawati knows that Suharto's downfall began under similarly volatile circumstances in 1998?Xand that elections are only 18 months away. Perhaps she needs to read her husband's book...