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...Njal's Saga, known to every schoolchild, the hero is burned to death, and it falls to his son-in-law Kari to avenge the family. Coldly, he knocks off 15 of his enemies, but then suddenly the killing stops. He feels he has overdone it. He asks the pardon of his chief antagonist, and stability is restored. As it is in Hrafnkel's Saga, where, after the obligatory killings and counterkillings, the hero refuses to execute his archrival and chooses to re-establish the balance in the country...
...population of 30,000 and Kerman's deputy governor Mohammad-Javad Fadaee has confirmed more than 600 fatalities so far. Yet statistics cannot convey the implacability of the devastation: at least five villages have been erased. "People had actually built their houses into the mountain," says unicef country representative Kari Egge from Houtkan, a village thought to have lost half of its 800 inhabitants, "so they were just collapsing and sliding down the slopes...
...outside on the portico despite freezing temperatures. "If anything happens, I'll be able to flee," he says gravely. In the rehab program, such children are asked to express their emotions in songs and drawings and given individual counseling. "There is a lot of invisible reconstruction going on," says Kari Egge, UNICEF's director in Iran. There are encouraging signs, such as the 24,000 children who've returned to school in makeshift classrooms. But the Bamis, as they are called, are barely beginning to recover from the disappearance of their prized city, especially the imposing Citadel, which protected them...
Predictably, Dina is "heartsick," according to a McGreevey adviser. But, he says, it was her decision to stand by her husband at the news conference. She wore a slightly vacant, utterly immovable expression, but she was next to him. His first wife Kari Schutz is also there for him, in her way. From her home in Canada, she was telling reporters last week that her former husband is a good father and a supportive ex. Asked if she knew he was gay, she told TIME, "We've always had open communication...
...primarily on nonmedical reasons for C-sections. Most men, however, would not volunteer to spend the next 40 years with bladder and bowel problems. Why should women? More time needs to be spent on women's health issues and less on preserving low surgical birth rates and saving money. KARI ZANGERLE Phoenix, Ariz...