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ISABEL ALLENDE, the distinguished Chilean writer, was celebrating the publication of one of her novels at a Barcelona party in December 1991, when she got word that her daughter was in a hospital in Madrid. She flew to her side. "I love you too, Mama," the 27-year-old Paula murmured just before she was seized by convulsions and fell into a coma. She never woke up, and a year later she died in Allende's arms. "I had a choice," the author recalls. "Was I going to commit suicide? Sue the hospital? Or was I going to write...
...Paula (Harper Collins; 330 pages; $24) the memoir Allende began on yellow pads as she sat in the hospital, is written as an anguished letter to her daughter, who suffered from porphyria--a metabolic disorder that is rarely fatal. "They told me she would wake up in a week or two," the writer says. But months passed at Paula's bedside before Allende learned that a hospital mishap had caused irreversible brain damage. "It was destiny--and it was bad luck. After they told me, I went on writing because I could not stop. I could not let anger destroy...
Finally, the Ames Awards for leadership,self-reliance and character were presented toMaria Paula rogahn '95 and Sarthak Das '95 fortheir public service to the community and theworld...
...another Whitewater development, the Washington Times reports that in the fall of 1993,then-Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbellmade seven phone calls to U.S. Attorney Paula Casey in Little Rock after government regulators sent her criminal referrals about a savings and loan with ties to the Clintons. Some of the calls, says the paper, came after Hubbell had recused himself from the investigation...
Still, on national TV last Thursday morning CBS's Paula Zahn asked Wright whether The Crimson was being manipulated by the administration...