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...career? I have cut back a lot on my travel, by reducing the number of operas I sing. Now I do more recitals. My daughters are happy. I take my cue from them. They know that they are my highest priority. I was reading recently there is this huge wave of women with spectacular educations who are leaving the work force to look after their children. When I was growing up, we thought we had it best because we could have it all: family and career. It is always fragile, being a parent. What aria do you most like singing...
...best judges into retirement. Mugabe, once hailed as a great new African leader himself, has proved more powerful than his country's institutions. There is progress, of course. Kenyans last week rejected a new constitution backed by lackluster President Mwai Kibaki - elected just three years ago in a wave of reformist zeal - because of concerns that the proposals vested too much power in his office. (Kibaki promptly sacked his entire Cabinet.) Voters in Ghana, Senegal and Zambia have all elected opposition parties since the turn of the century. Such peaceful shifts prove that institutions in some countries are becoming strong...
Junior guard Ko Yada picked a great time to nail his first career three-pointer. With the game seemingly slipping away and the Crusaders riding a wave of momentum, the reserve stepped up and drained a crucial shot...
...CAREER? I have cut back a lot on my travel, by reducing the number of operas I sing. Now I do more recitals. My daughters are happy. I take my cue from them. They know that they are my highest priority. I was reading recently there is this huge wave of women with spectacular educations who are leaving the work force to look after their children. When I was growing up, we thought we had it best because we could have it all: family and career. It is always fragile, being a parent...
...distinction Ayu Utami earned after the 1998 release of her first novel, Saman. The book, which has sold more than 100,000 copies and been reprinted 34 times, has made Utami the leading light of a genre dubbed "sastra wangi," or fragrant lit, the local term for a new wave of wildly popular female authors dealing with once-forbidden themes of sex, power and corruption...