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...songs range from 30-second musical epiphanies to 10-minute meditations and are usually about the infinite majesty of natural forces like mountains, wolves, and plum blossoms or about his personal musical Vision Quests to find strength and tenderness...
...beginning of the Reagan Administration, Negroponte snagged what seemed to be a plum assignment in Honduras. As the base for U.S.-backed contra rebels fighting the Sandinistas in neighboring Nicaragua, Honduras was vital to Washington's anti-communist policies in Central America. But if Negroponte and his wife hadn't ended up adopting five Honduran children, he would probably just as soon have forgotten his tenure there. The posting proved to be the black mark in his career. He was accused of turning a blind eye to human-rights abuses by the Honduran government; he says he saw no evidence...
...Mahdi of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), agreed to take himself out of the running. In exchange for backing the Dawa man, SCIRI will likely get a candidate of its own choosing into one of two vice presidencies, and also land a couple of plum cabinet jobs. Jaafari still faces a challenge for the Shiite nomination from former Pentagon favorite Ahmed Chalabi, which may be settled by secret ballot among Alliance delegates over the next two days. But Jaafari consistently shows up in Iraqi opinion polls as one of the country's most popular politicians...
...Palestinians in the territories were incensed as the plum posts in the new Palestinian Authority went not to the local leaders who had sacrificed so much in the intifada, but to exiles who returned from Tunis with Arafat and in most cases rushed to use their new positions to feather their own nests. While Arafat enjoyed his new role as feted statesman in Western capitals, some painful realities didn't change for his people: The Israeli settler population of the West Bank doubled during the Oslo years, raising Palestinian suspicions over Israel's intentions. Meanwhile, on the Israeli side...
...pretty bland ones at that. But a visit to Britain's National Fruit Collection at Brogdale would immediately dispel that notion. Brogdale boasts the world's largest collection of fruit trees across 61 hectares of fertile Kent countryside?over 2,300 varieties of apple, 550 of pear, 350 of plum and 220 of cherry, as well as more than 320 varieties of bush fruits, nuts and vines...