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...reality, not even journalists are that simple. Karl Taro Greenfeld, TIME Asia's deputy editor, probably thought he had a straightforward, if somewhat unusual, profiling assignment facing him when he touched down in Kathmandu, Nepal, two Fridays ago. He was there to write this week's cover story, the heroic tale of Erik Weihenmayer, a blind man who had scaled Mount Everest. But in the wee hours of Saturday morning, Greenfeld was roused in order to track down a different beast altogether--the story behind the assassinations of the King, Queen and much of the royal family of Nepal...
...Ridgefield Press in order to quote him in its ads for The Animal and A Knight's Tale, I shook my head in disgust, knowing that this is valuable free press I should be getting. I also felt bad for Mark and Jonathan Schumann, who really do write film reviews for the Ridgefield paper in their "Take Two: A Father and Son Go to the Movies" column, and whose careers may never recover from this blow. Mostly, though, I just thought about myself...
...poverty-racked northeast. The school was founded in 1992 by Dora Andrade, 42, a dancer who cut short her career in the U.S. to come home and teach girls to dance their way out of the slums. Most of the children who enter EDISCA can't read or write. Many have health problems and are close to running away from violent homes or being lured into child prostitution. Andrade and a staff of 36 teach them about nutrition and health care as well as art, theater and music. But only one course is compulsory. "Dance is the pillar...
THERE Vladimir Zhirinovsky, eccentric Russian Liberal Democratic Party leader, posts a letter offering unsolicited advice "as that of an uncle to his nieces" to the Bush daughters, deriding their underage drinking as a "disappointment" and warning that he'll follow their "future life and will write letters when necessary...
...hold off sponsoring a similar measure in the House with the promise that they'd negotiate a compromise with him. But "he was being strung along," says GOP Congressman Greg Ganske, a cosponsor of Norwood's bill. While they kept Norwood closeted in endless meetings, Bush aides secretly helped write a bill more to their liking with GOP Sen. Bill Frist and moderates John Breaux and Jim Jeffords. That measure channels all suits into federal courts and limits jury awards for pain and suffering to just...