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...Anna Hrubesova and her family live in a worn municipal villa, divided into four apartments, which once belonged to the Henlein family. They also own a weekend house the government confiscated from other German residents. "You can tell yourself 10 times that nothing can happen," says Anna's mother, Iva, a 37-year-old brunette on maternity leave. "But court proceedings may take half a year and you will lose your nerves." Iva's grandmother was a local German who avoided expulsion because she was married to a Russian. Despite having German lineage, though, her daughter Anna doesn't want...
...Part of that return to normal is driven by a return to reasonable lending: people aren't buying more than they can afford to because banks won't let them. When the Robertses first met with mortgage planner Iva Deobald last year, she told them to go away, pay down their credit-card and student-loan debt and then come back with a better set of financials. Deobald says, "I'm back to what I used...
Jordan has become a constant presence in the lives of her young charges. At Starr-Iva Middle School, she teaches two courses--one focused on basic sexuality, the other on decision-making skills--to each class in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades. The program gives students escalating levels of information about STIs, pregnancy and contraception. But it also encourages them to delay sexual activity, works on building self-esteem and uses role-playing to teach them how to resist pressure from peers and partners...
...DIED. Iva Toguri D'Aquino, 90, Japanese-American jailed, amid post-World War II anti-Japanese prejudice, as the seductive, traitorous radio host Tokyo Rose; in Chicago. In fact, there was no Tokyo Rose-the name was given by U.S. troops to any English-speaking female on Radio Japan, the propaganda outlet where D'Aquino was forced to work after being stranded during a visit to Tokyo by the bombing of Pearl Harbor. With references to listeners as "our friends-I mean, our enemies" and off-air efforts to aid American POWs, she made clear her loyalty...
...partner, Iva Acrabova, is pregnant and had to walk three hours to get home last night. ?I didn?t want to come in today,? she said, ?so I?m wearing my tracksuit in protest...