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...could, played brassy scoundrels and real heels and the occasionally arty part, and seemed the whole while to be having a blast. Young audiences loved all that about him ... at the same time, he was a pragmatic businessman's son, and he had children to support, and he took all that seriously enough to win the approval of a generation who'd grown up with Henry Fonda, James Stewart and Clark Gable. He was easy on the eyes...
...country where death squads operate with impunity and where only one in 10 homicides reach court, human-rights groups worried that the killings were a throwback to the bad old days when police took matters into their own hands. "We had two fears," says Eloisa Machado, a lawyer with the Conectas human-rights organization. "That public-security officers had abused their power and summarily executed people, and that these cases would be hushed up." She then claims, "Unfortunately, both these fears have been confirmed." (See pictures of São Paulo's attempts to clean itself...
...That left Prabhakaran with control of the north, secured by several thousand soldiers. But the transformation from running a guerrilla force to a conventional army may have been the leader's undoing. The nation's current President, Mahinda Rajapaksa, took office in 2005 and vowed to pursue a military solution. In a conventional war against an army many times its size, the LTTE was sure to be outmatched, and eventually it was. Prabhakaran never again appeared before the press after 2002, but he continued to release photos and speeches every year. "With its greed for land, Sinhalam [Sri Lanka...
...union that represents hospitality workers in the Greater Boston area. “We remain hopeful that we can find an opening within HUDS for anyone in a position that is being eliminated due to the service changes,” the statement said. 17 dining hall staff took the early retirement package, and 24 jobs—12 cooks and 12 general service positions—are being cut as a result of the elimination of hot breakfast, according to Annenberg shop steward Larry E. Houston. Last Friday, dining hall employees received information packets that included bid forms listing...
...sudden surge that took Asian health officials by surprise, the Japanese health ministry confirmed on Monday at least 125 new cases of the H1N1 virus - or swine flu - in the country's Western prefectures of Osaka and Hyogo. Officials have shut down about 1,000 schools, since many of the infected were high school students. Japan is now, along with the U.K. and Spain, one of the few countries outside of North America where the World Health Organization (WHO) fears sustained human-to-human transmission of the virus could lead to the onset of a full-blown pandemic. "We must...