Word: roberts
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...Zimbabwe Finally a Unity Government, But Huge Problems Remain After a nearly five-month impasse, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai (below) has agreed to serve as Prime Minister in a power-sharing arrangement with President Robert Mugabe. Although the political turmoil may be over, Zimbabwe faces a cholera epidemic, mass hunger and hyperinflation. The central bank has said it will permit the use of foreign currency and announced on Feb. 2 that it would chop 12 zeros off new notes, making an old trillion-dollar bill equal to one new Zimbabwean dollar...
...sure where the award ceremony for the feature films was held, but the shorts awards were given out a mile from town at a weird '80s dance party with a really bad buffet in a room without seats. I did not see Robert Redford. Standing near the stage, rehearsing my speech, I was relieved not to get any of the eight "honorable mentions," which is some kind of Sundancespeak for "loser." But when the actual award was given, they called up a young hipster named Destin Cretton, who not only did not have a speech prepared but also was holding...
...called himself the "Jackie Robinson of journalism." Robert Churchwell Sr., 91, became the first African American at a major Southern newspaper after joining the Nashville Banner...
...large number of embryos to a relatively young patient--an unmarried mom raising four singletons and a set of twins--has put fertility specialists on the defensive as they try to counter the perception that theirs is an undisciplined, irresponsible profession. "The word cowboys comes to mind," says Robert Stillman, medical director at Shady Grove Fertility Center in Rockville, Md., the country's largest fertility clinic...
...specific way we have to play and everyone has to be on board and on the same page,” Biega said. “If we execute tomorrow, we have the best chance to find success.”—Staff writer Robert T. Hamlin can be reached at rthamlin@fas.harvard.edu...