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John and Maxine Cail had been happily married for 53 years when Maxine died after a stroke earlier this year. "Her death wasn't a surprise, and I handled everything right after the funeral with ease," says John, 74, a retired health-care worker in Nashville, Tenn. But five weeks later, he woke up one morning and began to sob. "My world had caved in, and I wanted to die," he says. As the tears flowed, he wondered how he could go on without his best friend and the love of his life...
...Thaksin-era job-creation scheme?like Ma-ae's cousin, shot dead by militants in October?is seen as a possible collaborator. Village chiefs, who are state employees, are routinely murdered. Afterwards, their positions either remain vacant or are often filled by militant sympathizers, forming what a local community worker (who requests anonymity) calls "a shadow government of insurgents...
...credible attempts to help the lowest earners find housing. One problem is weak government oversight of development--a sign, some complain, that Miami's sun-soaked complacency has addled its political leaders as well. "Planning is disdained as the enemy here," says Gihan Perera, director of the Miami Workers Center. Local anger boiled over recently at a housing scandal that Perera's group helped the Miami Herald expose: Miami-Dade's government housing agency paid millions of dollars to politically connected developers for low-income projects that were never built or were used to construct private condominiums instead. "This...
...problems here. First of all, Tom Everett Scott, as the actor, doesn't for one moment convince us he's any manner of Hollywood star: no bearing, no ego, so nervous about his sexual encounter that he might be a middle-aged Neil Simon garment worker having his first fling with a hooker. The playwright (and director, Scott Ellis) want to be both naughty and cool. There's utterly no passion, not to mention plausibility, in this relationship. (Deadpan exchange: "Let's get started." "OK, I'll get aroused...
...whole pop culture reaction to it.”Sometimes, as in a strip from Oct. 14, 2001, Rees only needs one panel to tear down even the most entrenched catchphrase:“Hey buddy, how are you enduring your freedom?” one office worker asks of another.However, Rees says that to call his strip cynical is to miss the point.“I’m not saying there’s no such thing as ideals or anything worth fighting for,” Rees says. “But those ideals are just...