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Lisa Beyer and senior foreign correspondent JOHANNA MCGEARY, both former Jerusalem bureau chiefs, wrote this week's cover stories. We sought interviews with both Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak, but only Barak agreed, spending 20 minutes on the phone with Beyer on Saturday. Rees and his team have been out on the streets and into the many trouble spots to bring vivid accounts of the drama now unfolding. Cairo bureau chief SCOTT MACLEOD headed for the Gaza Strip, AMANY RADWAN monitored the Egyptian government's mediation efforts, Tehran stringer AZADEH MOAVENI kept watch on the volatile Lebanese border from Beirut...
That Chris Gaines thing was a sign. Now we have confirmation: GARTH BROOKS is in midlife crisis. Brooks told record-industry magazine Billboard this week that he and wife SANDY "both agree that we need to get divorced... Right now we're focusing on the impact it will have on the children and how to handle that best." Brooks, who more or less announced his retirement from music last year to spend quality time with his family, said he might now make another album, but he doesn't exactly sound like a man brimming with confidence. "Making music always does...
...Seuss is worth 1/2 point, Tolstoy 130 points, and students can redeem points for everything from a pencil (10 points) to a trip to an Atlanta Braves game (150 points). And if you think the tests are giveaways, guess who flunked The Cat in the Hat test last week, flubbing 3 out of 5. Like you would have remembered if it was a A) windy, B) sunny, C) snowy...
...Last week, in a final push, the mayor dusted off Gone With the Wind, Lastinger second-grader Stephen Sumner ripped through Tom Sawyer and aced 19 out of 20 questions, and Rotarians challenged Kiwanians to a read-off. At Lastinger, Kaitlyn Pritchard, 7, nailed the test on a book called Arthur's Eyes. The 1/2 point gave her 20 for the year, and she couldn't wait to tell her parents. "I'm going to surprise them tonight," she said...
...This week or next, a Tift County man, woman or child will close a book, pass a test and push the point total over a million. Because primary schoolers have read so many 1/2-point books, the points translate to roughly 1 million books...