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Died Tayeb Salih, one of Sudan's top novelists, died Feb. 18.
Salih, 80, was internationally recognized for his 1966
Season of Migration to the North
, which…
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CURED: American surgeon Paul Lim operated last month on 12-year-old
Gadisse at the newly opened CURE International hospital in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia. When he…
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DIED: Artist Andrew Wyeth, perhaps best-known for his "Christina's
World" depicting a crippled woman struggling to reach a farmhouse
on top of a hill, died…
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OF COUNSEL: Kenneth Starr, the former U.S. Solicitor General who
led the investigation into the Clinton/Monica Lewinsky affair,
joined forces with Prop 8…
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HIRED:
Time
magazine Washington bureau chief Jay Carney is ending his 20-year
career with the newsweekly to serve as Vice President-elect Joe
Biden's director…
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DIED: American supercentenarian Edna Parker, who became the world's
oldest person in August 2007, died Nov. 26 at the age of 115. Maria
de Jesus of Portugal,
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SENTENCED: Chinese pastor Zhu Baoguo was sentenced to one year of
"re-education through labor" in October, ChinaAid announced it had
learned Nov. 18, after…
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RESCUE: In a country once ranked as having the world's highest
abortion rate, one Vietnamese man offers hope to unwed mothers.
Tong Phuoc Phuc's "abortion…
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PRETZELED: A Presbyterian Church (USA) court ruled unanimously that
Pittsburgh pastor Janet Edwards did not violate Scripture or church
law by officiating at…
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CHARGED: A jury pool four times the normal size will report Oct. 20
to an Alabama courtroom to begin jury selection in a trial dating
back to a 1965 killing…
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UPDATE: A California judge ruled last month to give full custody of
comatose Janet Rivera to her brother, Michael Dancoff. Earlier this
year, a public…
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RESIGNED: After only a year at the helm, Japanese Prime Minister
Yasuo Fukuda announced Sept. 1 he is resigning. The 72-year-old
leader, who succeeded Shinzo…
