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Berry immediately quit her job at Scholastic and focused on raising her sons as a single mother...
...sits again, on June 29, P.N.G. will be run - as it usually is these days - by Cabinet and the courts. The busiest people in Port Moresby are judges, who are now deciding whether the five-month adjournment of Parliament was constitutional, whether Skate breached the Leadership Code when he quit as acting vice-regent, whether Skate's removal as Speaker was proper, and whether Matane or Sir Pato Kakaraya, the winner of the December vote, should be sworn in as the next Governor-General. Urgent issues like poverty, crime and corruption, a looming aids crisis, decaying infrastructure and dwindling investment...
DIED. JOEL DEAN, 73, whose fancy SoHo food store, Dean & DeLuca, made epicures of American shoppers; of a staph infection; in New York City. In 1976 he quit a publishing job to open an upscale market with his friend Giorgio DeLuca. It became a destination for food lovers, the flagship of the 19-store chain and a thriving catalog and Web business...
...Vietnam, handled procurement contracts for Halliburton from a base in Kuwait. He says he was actively discouraged from bidding. "We were not looking for the best price," Bunting told TIME. "The supervisors said time and again, 'Don't worry about the price. Halliburton will get reimbursed.'" Disgusted, Bunting quit and went home last summer. He testified before Congress in February on Iraqi contract practices. A Halliburton spokeswoman denied overcharging by the company and said there is no record that Bunt-ing called the firm's hotline to register his concerns...
...ground. Easter-week attacks on KBR's fuel convoys left four dead, bringing the company's death toll to 35, the majority of them drivers. Two drivers remain missing. Another, Thomas Hamill, escaped from his Iraqi captors and returned home to a hero's welcome. Hundreds more drivers have quit early and come back...