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...almost infinite.” He pointed to a $20 million disparity between the organization’s requested and actual budget. PIH was founded 20 years ago based off work that Farmer, then a joint medicine and anthropology student, had done providing free medical treatment to the poverty-stricken residents of rural Haiti. “The patients are the heart and soul of the operation. Often, once they’ve gotten better, we train and employ them,” Marx said, adding that the Farmer, who spends more of his time abroad with PIH than...
...melancholy melodies that permeate the album, she doesn’t leave the listener entirely hopeless, though it may take several listens to find the music’s uplifting aspects. The final song, “West,” ultimately looks away from her pain-stricken past and toward the future: “Who knows what the future holds or where the cards will fall / But if you don’t come out west and see you’ll never know at all.” Even Williams, it seems, has to move on eventually...
...Anna Nicole did her mourning in the Bahamas. She had slipped away from Billy Wayne and small town Texas in 1987 and found her way back to Houston, a city with a brash and brassy side. There, in October 1991, an aging oil millionaire, grief stricken with the loss of both a wife and a mistress, was taken by his chaffeur for a little cheering up to Gigi's Cabaret. It was the kind of place where young women dance exotically for their suppers. And that is how Anna Nicole found her second husband, Howard Marshall...
...America now had a navy (built at the end of Adams' term during a period of tension with France). President Jefferson sent a squadron to the Mediterranean, where it met with failures and successes. In 1803 the frigate Philadelphia ran aground in Tripoli harbor; America had to burn the stricken ship. On the plus side, in 1805 William Eaton, a feisty diplomat, led a force of Marines, mercenaries and Arab allies 520 miles over the Egyptian desert and captured Tripoli's second largest town (the line in the Marine Corps hymn, "to the shores of Tripoli," commemorates this exploit). Jefferson...
...Brand said there would be a bone marrow recruitment drive at the Harvard Hillel this Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. They emphasized that people should register in the bone marrow database not just to help Cross, but to help any other matches who are stricken with cancer. [CORRECTION APPENDED...