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...address was about the importance of statistics in science, and the day before was a lesson from the Koran. Today three girls talked to their classmates about a woman in Gaza and her four children, all of whom had been killed when their donkey cart rolled over an Israeli mine near an Israeli settlement in the dunes south of Gaza City. Qawasmeh knew she had to help her 735 elementary and high school students understand. "Nobody is excluded, even a mother and her children," Qawasmeh told the assembly through the polyester veil that covers her nose and mouth. "We have...
...enjoyed the tribute to Elizabeth, the Queen Mother [APPRECIATION, April 8]. Thank you for your effort on behalf of this beautiful grandmother who reminds me of mine, in looks as well as demeanor--though not in the number of jewels or horses she owned! BEN F. MARTIN Holly Springs, Miss...
...blue button-down with a silver tie: “No Brain, No Gain. Stay in School.” If not for the decor or the MJ-derived inspiration, there is another reason one might frequent the out-of-the-way café: A male friend of mine goes there to pick up men. “If you’re on the hunt, you have to go to where they live,” he says sagely...
CHECHNYA Not Over Yet At least 17 members of the pro-Moscow Chechen police were killed in an ambush in central Grozny. On the previous day six Russian soldiers died and 11 were injured in a mine attack, reportedly in retaliation for Russian mortar strikes on the southern village of Gorgachi, which killed two children and a pregnant woman. Two hours after the Grozny explosion, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared in his State of the Union address that the "military stage" of the conflict in the rebel republic was over...
...private disappointment at first. For four years she sat with her suspicion that while her manuscript sat in the Viking offices someone working for King lifted the essence of her work and copied it into Desperation, a novel about an ancient evil spirit released from a mine into a Nevada desert...