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These are not the best of times for Argentina's President Carlos Menem. When his wife Zulema barricaded herself and their two children within the presidential residence, he prudently left the country for a European sojourn, though not before signing a decree giving himself sole authority over who is allowed inside. When he returned home, he ousted Zulema, who then made a melodramatic scene in front of TV cameras. But these troubles pale before a new problem confronting Menem. Legions of superstitious Argentines have become convinced he is cursed with a hex. The alleged evidence: several of his Cabinet ministers...
...team owes its improbable Italian sojourn to improving youth programs. Although professional soccer has never gained much more than a toehold in the U.S., some 2.5 million U.S. school kids play the game. Their fast improving ranks have stocked U.S. college squads and provided the national team with better players than ever before. Another boost for the home team: Mexico, a tough, world-class contender that vies in the same qualifying group as the U.S., was banned from competition for using ineligible players...
Harvard may not have wanted to listen, but Graham forced her issue that Commencement Day. And in doing so, reminded the 1300 graduating seniors of the battles they had fought to make their own voices heard during their four-year sojourn in Cambridge...
...born in Missoula, Mont. His father, a research scientist for the Department of Agriculture, moved the family several times around the Pacific Northwest before settling in Washington, D.C. Lynch found high school "worthless" but put up with it, then went to art school in Boston. After a brief sojourn in Austria, he moved to Philadelphia to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts...
...spot the fiend's tricks and escape perdition. Other dramatists, like David Mamet in Bobby Gould in Hell, recall that Beelzebub is a fallen angel and reckon he must be something of a moral philosopher. Both authors seem to think nothing could be more instructive than a sojourn in Hades to enhance the remainder of a life back on earth. They give that opportunity not only to the title characters of their two one-act plays but also, vicariously, to audiences in a double bill that opened last week at New York City's Lincoln Center...