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...such crusades--one to stop the narcotraffic that runs on this river and one that is trying to bring Jesus to its darkest corners--that collided 140 miles east of town April 20 when a Peruvian jet shot down an unarmed Cessna carrying missionaries back from an upriver stint. The results were predictable: Roni Bowers, 35, and Charity, her seven-month-old daughter, killed by the gunfire that forced the crash landing of their plane...
...Tapie Gets a Rematch Another notable comeback was staged last week in Marseilles where Bernard Tapie returned to run its doleful soccer club, Olympique Marseille. Tapie's first stint there from 1986-1994 ended in a five-month prison term on multiple corruption convictions, but not before he'd trans-formed OM into a powerhouse, winning four national titles and France's only pro European crown. His popularity allowed him to launch a political career that peaked with election to Parliament in 1989 and a 1992 appointment as Urban Affairs Minister. But legal authorities investigating Tapie's businesses uncovered evidence...
Other stops on Desai's career track were true enough. Desai spent less than a year as editor in chief at TheStreet.com with a brief stint as CEO. He had also been a managing director at Scient for eight months. This didn't faze the universities, because job hopping seemed de rigueur in the Internet world...
...dexterity with the witty and intricate dialogue that was en vogue in the 17th century French court admittedly serves as a nice parallel to the intricacies of a story that has two sets of identical “twins” roaming the stage. (Mercury takes a stint as an identical copy of Amphitryon’s slave in order to facilitate Zeus bedroom escapades.) But the script, to its own detriment, borrows freely from Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors (which was based in part on Plautus’ Amphituo) and in doing so brazenly ignores...
...English and French with a gaggle of friends. Forwood's contradictions are typical of her cohort. She has a master's degree but "no idea what I want to do long term." She holds a British passport but has spent most of her life in Belgium, with a stint in Mexico. "When I go to England I feel very weird," she says. "I look around and think, who are these people? But the French are still the French, and the English are still English. Nothing will ever change. In Brussels, people speak three, four, five languages...