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...each stop, she is greeted by entire village populations cheering and waving with a passion normally reserved for holy days. Her mother grew up not far away. Arroyo knows the local dialect?one of six languages she speaks?and remembers the steps of the traditional dances she's invited to join. She's happiest on these trips, she says repeatedly. And she does seem looser than she is around the palace or in press conferences and at official functions. Her frequent reminders that she's the first President to visit these towns?shrugging off two previous helicopter crashes and "risking...
...Sherpa, more than any other, changed this attitude. "In Tenzing Norgay," writes his grandson, "there developed something more, something almost alien to his race, this was a passion for and an ambition to climb mountains, specifically Everest." As a boy, while he herded yaks on the high mountain pastures with Chomolungma?as Everest is known by the Sherpas?looming above, he had grown to consider it his mountain...
...decision to send U.S. troops to rescue hostages in Tehran. DIED. AMPARO MONTES, 81, one of the last survivors of Mexico's golden age of music in the 1940s and '50s; in Mexico City. With her deep, sensuous voice, Montes was dubbed "la Voz Pasional" (the Voice of Passion). Her emotional renditions of the romantic Latin style of music called bolero sent her popularity skyrocketing: three compilation CDs of her work have been released in the past five years. DIED. CAMILO JOSE CELA, 85, prolific, provocative author whose challenging prose won him the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature; in Madrid...
...establish yourself as the anti-abortion President. Wait, now, let me think? ah, yes. We remember you: You're the guy who spent his time in the Texas governor's mansion vowing to end legal abortion. You'll have to forgive us for not remembering your deep-seated passion for the topic; after all, it has been nearly a year since you've mentioned the plight of America's fetuses - seems you were busy doing other things, like addressing gaping holes in our public education system and fighting a war on terrorism. But don't worry...
...untroubled ease with which she inhabits a range that has included a political activist in Waking the Dead and the girlfriend who survived Pollock's fatal car crash. "Jennifer is a great listener," says Mind director Ron Howard, "both onscreen and off." That capacity girds her work with a passion as fierce as it is unspoken...