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...losing most of her hearing in one ear after an assault by an early beau. She has got herself in trouble too, in a February 2000 car crash that cost her 20 head stitches and a no-contest plea to charges of leaving the scene of an accident. As survivor and screw-up, Berry was ideal for the role of Leticia, the broke, hapless widow of an executed man who gets tangled up with a racist penal officer (Billy Bob Thornton) in the moody Monster's Ball...
That kept cash tight at the Finance Ministry office set up to handle claims. Until the 1980s, a survivor's first contact with the office was with a team of former police detectives whose mission was to root out cheats, not to process legitimate claims. When Rafi Pinto took over the department six years ago, his predecessor told him, "Your job is to save the state's money." Only in 1997 did Pinto publish details of survivors' entitlements that had been on the books since the 1950s. "There was a problem," he says. "People really didn't know what they...
...Maybe it takes a survivor of cancer, the private pitiless terror, to minister to a city that discovers in a single moment that every moment counts, that everything you were certain of can change in an instant. We knew that he was a tough man. It took the trauma for us to discover the tenderness, the offscreen, backstage, lowlight kindness he showed to widow after widow, child after child. A man considered incapable of empathy, who could scarcely mutter a word of condolence to the mother of an unarmed man his police force had shot 41 times, somehow knew what...
...Many readers saw the attack as "this generation's wake-up call" to a world that was "unfocused, entrenched in self-serving politics," and that bin Laden "shifted our attention away from our 'Survivor' self-absorbed selves to 'Hey, there's problems in other parts of the world!'" - Some concluded that "we have finally realized we need each other. Badly." ... "While bin Laden may not have changed the world, he made it clear how much the world had changed with out us knowing it." ... "We are, sadly, just as safe as we were on Sept. 10. Now we know...
...Know your enemy! Even though I am sure it will upset many people, he more than anyone caught our attention this year. He and his followers successfully shifted our attention away from our "Dr. Phil" and "Survivor" self-absorbed selves to "Hey, there's problems in other parts of the world!" We stopped worrying about who our leaders were sleeping with and started worrying about what kind of leaders we have elected. - Melinda Hilterbrand. Pensacola...