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...arrange an operation for a girl whose skull was shattered in a car accident. They help a boy get adopted. And they build a new football field in honor of a high school coach with leukemia. Grant dispenses hugs by the bushel, sheds tears and pulls out her guitar, twice, to sing her single, Takes a Little Time: "It takes a little time sometimes/ To get your feet back on the ground...
...serious? Choose to rent when owning seems a sure way to riches? On closer view, he just may be on to something. The Choes sold their tiny ranch in Sacramento, Calif., for $369,000, or nearly twice what they had paid three years earlier. But rather than plow his money back into a sky-high market in which people were bandying about the word bubble, Choe rented a bigger house in a better neighborhood--at a monthly expense similar to his old mortgage and for less than half of what it would take to buy the new place...
...might as well be "Rafsanjani: The Sequel." With Iranians set to go to the polls beginning next week for the first presidential election since 2001, Rafsanjani is poised--but with a 36% showing in opinion surveys, not guaranteed--to win a third term as President, having served twice from 1989 to 1997. Known as Iran's most cunning political actor, he has positioned himself as the most palatable compromise candidate in the eight-man race, a centrist who can act as a bridge between Iran's hard-line conservatives and its disillusioned reformers. At the same time, he is projecting...
...Democracy won't come overnight," says Mohammed Moaddab, 27, a graduate student in international affairs who voted twice for Khatami but is supporting Rafsanjani. "We need realism." That may not satisfy idealists in Tehran or Washington. But with Rafsanjani as President, that may be the most they can expect. --With reporting by Matthew Cooper and Elaine Shannon/ Washington, Bruce Crumley/Paris and J.F.O. McAllister/London
Lukas, one of just a handful of writers to win the Pulitzer Prize twice, began his life as a journalist while still a Harvard undergraduate...