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Phelan’s Dismissal Tragic...
...threatening to swallow a whole generation. But international policy is coalescing like never before: in a historic summit, more than 30 African heads of state gathered in Nigeria last month for an AIDS conference. African leadership must be the core of any strategy to combat the epidemic. Now, after tragic years lost, it seems that such leadership is beginning to emerge. At that meeting, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called on the leaders to multiply their health budgets and take serious action, and he called on the developed world to donate $7 to 10 billion a year to support their...
...nationwide. So we began to look at relatives as potential caretakers." The idealized version of a sibling-run household was promoted by the 1990s television drama Party of Five, which chronicled the Salinger family after their parents died in a car accident. But real-life siblings who have weathered tragic loss and then learned to improvise their way through parent-teacher conferences and dentist appointments will tell you it is not the romanticized stuff of television...
...parents would draw up wills with careful guidelines for their kids, removing some of the critical decision making at a time of shock and grief. Alas, that's seldom the case. Realtor Bernard Strong, 47, of Atlanta, was already devastated at the age of 20 by his mother's tragic death in a car accident. No sooner had he returned to college than he learned his father had suffered a severe heart attack; his father died in his sleep 18 months later. "When that happened," Bernard admits, "I was about to check...
Vietnam was some omelet. But it was a war, after all--a tragic, confusing, mishandled business in which the enemy merged with the civilian population, and the girl who did the laundry might blow you up with a grenade hidden beneath the folded underwear. Brave, decent men like Bob Kerrey got hurt or killed and sometimes made mistakes that killed the innocent...