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...days at sea, 156 Liberian passengers aboard a Swedish-registered ship were finally allowed ashore in Lagos. The Alnar Stockholm left Monrovia on June 1 bound for Ghana but was refused permission to dock. The ship's captain then tried Benin and Togo, but they also declined to accept the passengers, who claimed to be refugees from fighting in their homeland. As the ship drew into Lagos they were too exhausted and hungry to celebrate but sang a hymn praising God for their deliverance...
...well aware that I have been described ... as enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding." Yet colleagues say his reputation as the angry old man of British theater is unfair, even if he did turn down a knighthood from Prime Minister John Major saying, "I would not accept such recognition from a Conservative government." "He's passionate, with a very short fuse," says Hall, "but he's also extremely warm and kind." Ian Holm recalls starring in Moonlight in 1993. The night the author attended, nobody dared laugh at the jokes. "He couldn't understand it," remembers Holm...
...patricide, matricide, fratricide and regicide in Nepal revealed a personal streak of sheer selfishness in the alleged assassin, Crown Prince Dipendra, as well as his utter disregard for the national interest. This tragedy illustrates the dangers of chronic indulgence by parents. Some in Nepal will not accept that such an act could be done by a son, or by a crown prince. But history and real life show that it is all too possible. Others with a penchant for conspiracy theories will not accept the certainties that come from a straightforward expose of the facts. The legacy of the Prince...
...Mostly, though, Changoiwala still goes to the office because he is a proud man who cannot accept the prevailing wisdom: the world he has known for more than six decades has been shattered beyond repair. "He is in a state of absolute shock, maybe even denial," says son-in-law Sandeep Harlalka. "It will take him some time to face the truth and start thinking about the future." The truth is that Changoiwala has little money to invest and even less work to do. His firm is deathly ill and his relatives are looking for jobs elsewhere: a daughter...
...emergency care, visits to specialists such as pediatricians, minimum hospital stays after mastectomies and costs associated with clinical trials. The bill gives millions of Americans the ability to go to federal and state courts in disputes with their HMOs. They can sue insurers, and some employers who accept the risk and responsibility of running the plan...