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...trilingual ... He reads Proust in the original French, and he has even studied architecture ... he taught himself Spanish ... From his youth as an Eagle Scout to digging ditches for Pacific Gas & Electric in high school to working as a janitor for the San Francisco school system, he has shared in the American experience, and he has been affected by it." -- Senator John Kerry (D-Mass...
...imposters masquerading as Italian police freed six inmates from the Due Palazzi prison last week -- making a mockery of the facility's maximum-security status. Permitted to enter by an inexperienced guard, the foursome -- two of whom wore jackets with CARABINIERI written across the back -- snatched keys from the janitor's office, took one guard hostage, tied up 15 others. They then unlocked the cells of six prisoners, including Felice Maniero, an alleged Mafia boss, and his lieutenant, Sergio Baron, both on trial for drug trafficking and armed robbery. Escaping in two cars through an electronically controlled security gate...
...shows perform during reading period:The Philadelphia Story and The Prophet and the Janitor finished their runs, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club bulletin listed openings last weekend for only. A House Divided and No Exit (which was not reviewed). Finding out the names of the directors and designers for only one or two new productions should not be a problem...
...with tuberculosis, Hannah left the rest of the family to take him to the dryer air in Prescott, Arizona. She could pay for this only by operating a clinic where other TB patients waited out their last weeks of life. In the summers Dick found jobs nearby as a janitor, a chicken plucker, a carnival barker. After five years, Harold died. "We all grew up rather fast in those years," Nixon recalled...
...Yongbyon nuclear complex. Nothing unusual was found at six of the sites, but at the seventh, where plutonium for bombs can be extracted from nuclear-fuel rods, the team discovered that an IAEA seal on an area containing a "glove box" for handling radioactive material was broken -- a janitor's mistake, claimed North Korea. But the inspectors were not permitted to take samples from the "glove box" that would reveal any recent handling of the North's plutonium stocks. They saw no evidence of a major breach, but the off-limits lab "was the heart of the matter," says IAEA...