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...allow them to leave the country. This left Sheherezad with a terrible choice. Leaving Iraq could mean never seeing two of her kids again, but staying would gravely endanger the three others. She and Yasser decided to leave without the teenagers. Yasser had to sit down with the younger children and have the conversation he had hoped to avoid until they became adults: telling them that Liliyan and Raed had a different father. Rawan is 7, and the twins are 4 - too young to fully comprehend but old enough to be traumatized. "They didn't stop crying for days," Yasser...
...become his new American nickname) can't blow a bubble without the media watching, attendance at Japanese professional games has sagged. TV ratings for the Yomiuri Giants, by far the country's most popular team, are so low that the games are shown on delay, late at night. Younger Japanese are flocking to soccer, which has a hip local league spread out across the country. Pro baseball is seen as stagnant and uncompetitive, clinging blindly to bygone success, which makes it a fittingly miserable metaphor for much of Japanese society--enslaved to tradition as it struggles to break...
...nothing on the split from Rome. "It was a sexy time. It was a dangerous time. You can't exaggerate the violence and the beauty," says Michael Hirst, screenwriter of The Tudors and The Golden Age. "This is the moment when Henry--because he falls in love with a younger woman--destroys English history...
...attributes his modest agenda to both his status as an interim president and the fact that he is 15 years older than he was when he left Mass. Hall.Interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, a fellow septuagenarian, said that Bok actually sets an example for his younger peers.“Just by his example, our president makes us all feel younger and more sprightly,” said Knowles. “He’s just the same warm friend with the formidable intellect that I first meet 33 years ago.”TAKING CARE...
...There's still time for another high-profile candidate to enter the race, perhaps lieutenant governor Mitch Landrieu, a Democrat and younger brother of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu. He lost a bid to replace New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin last year. But the state's scrambled demographics could complicate matters: Hurricane Katrina cut the population of New Orleans, a Democratic stronghold, by half. And while many of those voters, mostly African-American, have resettled elsewhere in Louisiana, the dispersal will make it harder for Democrats to cobble together the coalition of black and Cajun votes that have traditionally helped them...