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...many must fend for themselves, struggling to survive. The trauma of losing parents is compounded by the burden of becoming a breadwinner. Most orphans sink into penury, drop out of school, suffer malnutrition, ostracism, psychic distress. Their makeshift households scramble to live on pitiful handouts--from overstretched relatives, a kind neighbor, a state grant--or they beg and steal in the streets. The orphans' present desperation forecloses a brighter future. "They hardly ever succeed in having a life," says Siphelile Kaseke, 22, a counselor at an AIDS orphans' camp near Bulawayo. Without education, girls fall into prostitution, and older boys...
...land once set aside for the exclusive enjoyment of Hawaiian royalty, Burger King now jousts for fast-food supremacy with a branch of the distinctly Japanese fast-food chain Mos Burger. Step inside the latter, and you can sink your teeth into an authentic Tokyo-style teriyaki chiisu bagaa. (That's "cheeseburger" with a Japanese accent.) East and West have collided in Hawaii for centuries, but never have the islands been so welcoming for Asian visitors...
...very suggestion that Hillary would lean on supporters to furnish her house. The Clintons have long dismissed the criticism of those in the vast right-wing conspiracy whom they don't respect. But how do you dismiss the views of those you do respect--who insist you would never sink so low, until they are silenced by proof of your grasping...
...mistake. The firm came in at less than half that. In Soros' mind, the beating that has hit Amazon and other stocks since then is the result of investors selling their mistakes. Soros among them. He hopped on the tech boat just long enough for his fund to sink 22%. As we said, mistakes break fortunes...
...From the right, of course, the view is much different. There's a quiet but firm belief that Bush won a major victory getting Ashcroft confirmed - and that the only folks who should get a "message" from the process are the Democrats who tried to sink the nomination. It's time, in other words, for Democrats to face up to the fact that they lost the presidential election, they don't have a majority in the Senate, and they are no longer in any position to call the shots...