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...trio persist and find sweetness in their path too. Barat hears a woman singing and proposes marriage to her sight unseen. She refuses when he tells her that once they marry, she will not be allowed to sing in public. The other son, Audeh, has seven wives and 13 children--all girls. He has vowed to keep marrying until he gets a son, but someone proposes he adopt a couple of war-orphan boys. The astonishing simplicity of the idea stuns him into rationality...
...Iuliano is competent and well-liked and there seems to be no other candidate still in sight,” the official said...
...after working as a summer intern in 1998 and planned to take it--right up until the day that August when her father, a construction worker, was killed by an 18-wheeler. Her mother needed her, and so Hernandez went home to Texas. With no journalism jobs in sight, she began teaching English to mostly poor Mexican-American kids at her old high school. She urged them to follow their dreams...
...codeine sulfate and procaine for his pain, penicillin for his infection, cortisone for his Addison's and so on. His back was killing him--the steroids had been weakening his spine. "Something as simple as bending over a lectern to read a speech caused him terrible pain. Out of sight of the press, he went up and down helicopter stairs one step at a time...
...names a father to qualify for welfare assistance. In some cases, judges are prohibited from overturning default rulings despite clear DNA evidence. The problem is so out of hand that in 1998 the California Court of Appeals had to rebuke overzealous L.A. officials for having “lost sight of the paramount duty to seek justice” in child-support cases...