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...parliamentary vote of confidence just two weeks after taking up the post. Lawmakers now have two weeks to put up an alternative candidate, but few expect a successful consensus to be reached. Safe Haven SOUTH AFRICA The government announced it would grant temporary asylum to ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who fled his country at the end of February in the face of an armed revolt. Pretoria also said it would support an investigation into Aristide's claim that he was forced to step down by the U.S. and France as rebels closed in on Port-au-Prince. Back...
...month mark, Margus' next eldest boy, Quinn, started developing the same symptoms as Jarrett's, which suggested that the problem was genetic. The boys endured blood tests, spinal taps, muscle biopsies. After spending $60,000 and turning up nothing, the Marguses took their sons to see Dr. Jean Aicardi, a world-famous French neurologist who happened to be visiting Miami Children's Hospital. "In the first five minutes, he saw our kids and said, 'It looks an awful lot like ataxia-telangiectasia,' which we couldn't even pronounce. 'I assume you've tested for this?' All it takes...
...idea has spread by word of mouth and news coverage. In the Seattle area, sisters Donna Calf Robe and Debora Graham have opened The Delicious Dish, a meal-assembly business that includes a wine shop. In Fargo, N.D., Deb Evenson, Nancy Kasper and Jean Ostrom-Blonigen dreamed up What's For Dinner while sitting at their sons' sports activities (they have seven sons among them). And there's the grandmother of the idea, Dream Dinners, a company based in Snohomish, Wash., that was launched in 2002 as a monthly gathering of the friends of former caterer Stephanie Firchau...
...meaning, is simply confusing, and has no dignity," he fumes in a frank, funny 1987 interview reprinted in the book.) He wasn't wild about The Complete Peanuts either. He thought his early work was crude, and he didn't especially want to see it reprinted. But his wife Jean disagreed, and after his death in 2000 she worked with an editor at Fantagraphics to pull the collection together. "Unlike Sparky, the rest of his family loves those old strips," she says (apparently everybody called Schulz Sparky). "To me, what's happening here is we're getting back...
Corpses have their own body language. Jean Vernet II's memories of Haiti under the dictatorial rule of Jean (Papa Doc) Duvalier are written in the patois of the murdered, and even today, decades later, the images of twisted limbs and fallen forms haunt him--and remind him of what can happen when ordinary people have no voice...