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...over the issue of slavery. Haiti, burdened by its postindependence isolation and the 100 million francs in payment it was forced to give France for official recognition--an amount estimated to be worth nearly $22 billion today, which some Haitians insist should be repaid--began its perilous slide toward turmoil and dependency, resulting in a 19-year U.S. occupation and two subsequent interventions in the past 100 years. In Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson presented dire warnings about what might happen to the U.S. political system in a worst-case scenario, but his words turned...
Beyond the emotional turmoil, there was a physical burden. Sigmond, a former director of the Albert Einstein Medical Center, owned a three-bedroom apartment that housed more than 80 cartons of books and stacks of professional papers. Downsizing to a smaller place meant days of sifting, sorting and lugging--more than he was willing to handle. So he didn't. Instead he called on moving solutions in Wynnewood, Pa., a senior-move management company, one of the latest specialty support services for older adults...
...come to write The Stranger Beside Me? Ted Bundy had been my partner at the crisis clinic in Seattle, where we took calls from people in emotional turmoil. We worked together for about a year and a half. We were good together. We saved lives. Every Sunday and Tuesday night for a year, I was locked up alone with Ted Bundy and feeling perfectly safe. I was 34, and he was 23. I thought of him as a younger brother. He used to walk me to my car late at night and say, "Be sure you lock the doors...
That is not the way it was supposed to be. Advocates of regime change in Iraq predicted before the war that the well-educated elite would flourish under new freedoms. Despite all the turmoil of the occupation, the graduates of Iraq's class of '04 may be standing on the cusp of a booming job market, as foreign companies arrive and the interim government taking office this month begins looking to hire thousands of skilled employees. And yet to the students planning their first career moves, those prospects seem remote. "Even if the government does everything that it has promised...
Over the next four years, 5 a.m. was when I debated the dogmas of different religions, confessed life dreams over diet Coke and Carly Simon, exchanged tales of family turmoil while doing laundry and watching Scent of a Woman—something about the intimacy of the hour made it easier to open up to my friends...