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...Reported by Massimo Calabresi, James Carney, Mark Thompson and Karen Tumulty/Washington, J.F.O. McAllister/London, Hannah Beech/the Taloqan front, Anthony Davis/Jabal Saraj, Alex Perry/Tashkent, Johanna McGeary/Peshawar and Rahimullah Yusufzai/Kandahar
...this could be explained by relentless coaching and students becoming better test takers,” said Karen L. Hartke, product director of the Massachusetss Coalition for Authentic Reform in Education (CARE...
...bookseller Bob Rainey acknowledged, “Among our clientele, there’s really always been an interest [in Middle Eastern affairs]; we didn’t really have to order many books specially.” At both stores, popular titles included Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong and Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid. But the Koran is also enjoying brisk sales. In seeking intellectual and emotional resources for coping with the crisis no material seems too esoteric, no subject so “specialized?...
...American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) was merely playing host, but the well dressed, older crowd was able to chat with familiar faces from the A.R.T., including Resident Dramaturg Gideon Lester and company members Karen MacDonald and Will LeBow, who were performing in the benefit. Volunteers from PEN New England, largely young writers, were eager to press wine into the hands of those who came early for food and social hour. Rialto Restaurant of the Charles Hotel provided dessert fare, and the brownies, delicious confections which dissolved in the mouth like so much nutty, brown sugary goo, must have given the older...
...pain never goes away, but there comes a time when people don't feel paralyzed by it at every moment. Karl and Sue Snepp of Tucson, Ariz., make a point of being with their daughter Karen every year on the anniversary of the death of their son Dave, who died of thyroid cancer in 1988 at 32. "Last year we went to Hawaii," says Karl, 70. "That was where Dave wanted his ashes scattered, so it has become a special place for us." Much as the Aldermans did after Peter's death, the Snepps celebrated their son's life...