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After three bad hair days back in 1992, Catherine Bertini finally gave in. She leaned over the tub in her Rwanda hotel room--the one with shot-out windows and no running water--and allowed her husband to pour a bucket of dirty water over her head. Rough treatment for the CEO of a multinational with a $1.88 billion operating budget. But this multinational happens to be the U.N. World Food Program, and in her nine years as the agency's executive director, Bertini has grown used to hardships. "WFP reaches people who are at risk of starvation," she says...
...seems that the comments Mansfield makes are simply not understood by those who attack him. He is quoted as saying, "White professors were unwilling to give black students C's to avoid giving them a rough welcome [in the early 1970s]. At the same time they didn't give C's to white students to be fair...
...particular, Mansfield said, "White professors were unwilling to give black students Cs to avoid giving them a rough welcome [in the early 1970s]. At the same time they didn't give Cs to white students to be fair...
...paunchy in the middle, strolls into a hotel suite dressed in yet another gray Yamamoto suit. He chain smokes while he talks, and interrupts the conversation frequently to apply drops to moisturize his right eye. (The tear ducts were injured in a 1994 motorcycle accident.) Beat comes across as rough, and radiates a warning not to mess with him. The guy is calm, but it's the calm of a coiled spring. For him, violence and comedy both hinge on unpredictability. That explains Beat's punching out a publisher whose magazine had been tailing his girlfriend. For that 1986 dustup...
Gertrude sits upright on a donated bed in a cardboard shack in a rough Durban township that is now the compass of her world. Perhaps 10 ft. square, the little windowless room contains a bed, one sheet and blanket, a change of clothes and a tiny cooking ring, but she has no money for paraffin to heat the food that a home-care worker brings. She must fetch water and use a toilet down the hill. "Everything I have," she says, "is a gift." Now the school that owns the land under her hut wants to turn it into...