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...Also controversial was the manner in which these 11th-hour pardons were granted. Instead of working their way, as is common practice, through a legal review by the Justice Department and background checks by the FBI, Clinton reviewed the pardons himself. This is perfectly legal--the president need not listen to the Justice Department's recommendations--but highly unusual. Whether or not bypassing traditional procedure was due to time constraints, as Clinton has claimed, or because he wanted no official objections to the questionable nature of many of the pardons has yet to be determined...
...brood. During the week, they roamed the campus of the Hubei Industrial Institute, where six blond, Chinese-speaking girls enchanted passersby used to the solitary products of the nation's one-child policy. Each Sunday, the Morrisons traveled to the Wuchang Protestant Church and joined dozens of Chinese to listen to the word of God as sanctioned by the Chinese state. While other Christians spread their message through illicit underground church meetings held in basements and anterooms, the Morrisons preferred to attend one of the seven officially registered churches available to Wuhan's 7 million citizens. "We want to work...
...comprehend the full horror AIDS has visited on Africa, listen to the woman we have dubbed Laetitia Hambahlane in Durban or the boy Tsepho Phale in Francistown or the woman who calls herself Thandiwe in Bulawayo or Louis Chikoka, a long-distance trucker. You begin to understand how AIDS has struck Africa--with a biblical virulence that will claim tens of millions of lives--when you hear about shame and stigma and ignorance and poverty and sexual violence and migrant labor and promiscuity and political paralysis and the terrible silence that surrounds all this dying. It is a measure...
...left in charge when his parents were out at the evening meetings their jobs often required. "Rod would make us listen to him read," remembers his youngest sister Raygene Paige, retired from a state agricultural agency. "And if we didn't pay attention to him, we had to write a book report...
...have friends who do, a National Institutes of Health study suggests. Researchers find that teens tend to behave like their five closest friends do, and girls are more likely than boys to give in to pressure to drink. However, parental involvement counts: kids whose moms and dads talk and listen to them regularly are less likely to smoke or drink...