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...workers are rarely supplied with labor contracts or insurance. The only piece of paper regularly produced by mine owners is a document waiving responsibility should any accident happen. Many of the miners are illiterate, so they simply press a black thumb to the disclaimer in lieu of a signature. Widow Zhang was promised compensation for her husband's death two months ago by a municipal official, but she doubts she will get it because her husband's was an illegal mine...
Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy was three when R.F.K. was assassinated. Born the ninth of 11 children, he grew up in the sad, chaotic shrine that was Hickory Hill. Ethel, Robert's widow, was intent on keeping his memory alive through her children. "The R.F.K.s had a very different [experience]," William Kennedy Smith says of his cousins. "There is an enormous focus there on that legacy that perhaps other branches of the family don't quite have to deal with as much...
...report has some value. It points out imbalances in the benefits system, like the widow who has never worked but gets more than the retired widow who did. And the panel is right to argue that it is far better to tackle the problem now than in 20 years. "There's no question that the do-nothing plan is the most popular," Moynihan told TIME. "About 500 members of Congress support it already. Just keep it up, and it will lead to a disaster...
...will degrade them; a new scene with Kurtz, in which he puts Willard in a cage and reads from a TIME article about the war; and a long, ghostly reverie set on a French plantation. There Willard finds a fractious old colonial family and is seduced by a young widow (the ever beautiful Aurore Clement...
...country homes, the people who accumulated real wealth as a result of the American indie rock saga of the `80s were either in Nirvana or married to people in Nirvana. For that reason, the tenth anniversary of Nevermind comes attended by unceremonious squabbling. Courtney Love, Cobain's famed widow, is engaged in a court battle with bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl over the rights to the Nirvana catalog, and that lawsuit looks as if it will prevent a Nevermind box set from being released this year. Such high- stakes legal brawls are worlds away from the scene profiled...