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...working with Viswanathan again for her second book, and Cohen, for her part, still keeps in touch with the young author even though her days of needing college-application advice are long over. Cohen said she loved the early proof of "Opal Mehta" so much that she tore through it in a single...
...crew are Mexican, and Gibson has donated $1 million to communities in Veracruz state affected by Hurricane Stan last year. Mexican cast members like Mayra Sérbulo, 30, a Zapotec Indian who plays a villager, say they expect some criticism of the film from Mexican nationalists (who also tore into Salma Hayek's Frida), especially since it touches on the raw issue of human sacrifice, which scholars don't believe was a prevalent Maya practice until the post-classic period, after A.D. 900, when fiercer influences like the Toltecs and Aztecs arrived. It is in that period, not coincidentally, that...
...Tuesday, workers from some 200 electric companies stretching across the Midwest were ready to fan out across the tiny town of Jerome, Ill., and the surrounding Springfield area to continue the heavy task of fixing an electrical system effectively laid to waste during the powerful storms and tornadoes that tore through parts of the Midwest through the weekend. At least 10 people were confirmed dead from the storms that hopscotched across Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and other Midwest states...
...students who opposed the posters agreed with those who tore them down...
...farmers believe the central government headed by President Hu will carry out the law for the people. We believe you certainly will take care of our village affairs." But before he was able to submit his letter, Liu says, a group of hooligans stopped him at the train station, tore up the letter and kept him hostage for eight days in a hotel. "I can't understand why no one addresses my problems," Liu says. "What good is the law if it doesn't serve the people...