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...reason for its length is that every child takes the first name of all his male ancestors. Often following the first name is a descriptive word or two, telling about the character of the person, making a true African name somewhat like a story. MIRIAM MAKEBA New York City...
Some argue that children mature enough to murder are mature enough to be punished for it. "I think when my kids were 15 or 16 they knew better than to kill someone," says Miriam Shehane, president of Victims of Crime and Leniency (VOCAL), a victims'-rights group based in Montgomery, Ala. "If someone does adult crime, they are acting as adults, and they have to take responsibility." Shehane contends that capital punishment is not only for those with long legacies of criminality but also for anyone, teens included, who commits singularly horrific crimes...
Judy Hung '99, who is also the treasurer of the Phillips Brooks House Association, sat down with Geralda Jean and Miriam R. Zefnaf, ages 7 and 8, on Friday afternoon to talk about applying the new four-step method...
Felix, who leads a tame existence churning out book after book about "frustrated middle-class lives," is unprepared to suddenly receive some vaguely threatening communications from Gavin, a shadowy character who introduces him to Miriam. Mirry avers that Felix fathered her son Ian a decade ago, and Felix, hard-pressed to disprove her case, is summarily presented with a bill for 20,000 pounds for Ian's keep from the Parental Rights and Obligations Department...
...richest Marlin fan was no happier than one of the team's poorest fans. Miriam Hernandez, the mother Livan left behind in Cuba, can't afford a radio strong enough to pick up the broadcasts of her son's games, so she relies on a man who lives four floors below her to shout up the play-by-play. After Game 5, in which her son struck out 15 Braves to outduel Greg Maddux and win 2-1, she told the Herald, "God has touched his hands. How much I would give to be able...