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...know the whole story, it’s incredibly inspirational,” Crimson coach Tim Murphy said. “It’s a great country when a kid can go from practically an orphan, can’t speak English, never played football, to Harvard, in six or seven years. It’s amazing...
...reinventing herself, yet again. Although she has not abandoned using sex and religion to get attention, she has found a new way to drum up record sales: charity. The former material girl was to adopt a one-year-old boy from Malawi, an African country with one million children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic.Only 24 hours after this story broke, however, Madonna’s publicist insisted that the performer was not so much adopting one child but “kind of adopting an entire country of children.” When pressed for clarification, it was revealed that...
...world. Frazier is something of an ambulance chaser when it comes to historical disasters--his best seller Cold Mountain was about the fall of the South in the Civil War. Thirteen Moons, Frazier's second novel, consists of the late-life recollections of one Will Cooper, an orphan who at 12 was put in charge of a remote trading post on the outskirts of the Cherokee Nation. There Will encountered two father figures--the wise, laconic chief Bear and the violent but entertaining hothead Featherstone--as well as one flirty half-Indian hottie, name of Claire...
...that bright, beautiful morning, Donald Kirby Ross considered himself a lucky man. An orphan raised in foster homes, Ross had found a true home in uniform; his job gave him a mission. He had been dating a college girl, Helen, and falling in love. Tomorrow would be his 31st birthday...
...Mphandula, the dusty, thatched-roof town where the orphan-care center is to be built, villagers look blank when shown a picture of one of the most famous women in the world. Since this is a place where people can afford to eat meat or wear shoes only on very special occasions, a place with no electricity or piped water, her anonymity is not surprising. But when the name Madonna is mentioned, they have heard of her: she's the woman who's building the center for their children. And they have no use for cynicism. "The orphanage project...