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Touch/feel
‘Just Do It’: Couple have sex for 101 days straight One couple gave their marriage a jolt … by having lots and lots of sex These guys on the radio are basically reading the New York Times story on the books: LET’S say you and your spouse haven’t had sex in so long that you…
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Refugees Are Dying Too Fast to be Buried
by GENE MUSTAIN in New York and MICHAEL O. ALLEN in Goma, Zaire, Daily News Staff Writers | Wednesday July 27, 1994 Aid workers battling death, famine and pestilence of the Rwanda refugee crisis faced a new problem yesterday–a shortage of graves. The raging cholera epidemic in the squalid camps near the border backwater town…
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Too old for this
I always tell myself that. But it does not stop me from doing it year after year. I need a new sport that could keep me fit without the physical devastation that soccer (football for non-Americans) wreaks on my body. Sunday. 9 a.m. It is already sweltering. My team, Santa Fe S.C., will play Clarkstown…
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A different country? No.
I may have said this before but I used to love reading Paul Krugman and I certainly hope to get around to loving to read him again. Right about now, he’s lost all credibility with me. His column today is a prime example of how he lost me. Hillary Rodham Clinton ran a, as Sen.…
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A Hell Without Fire
by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Thursday, July 28, 1994 GOMA, Zaire – The heart of darkness lies beneath a smoky volcano. It starts at the edge of a shimmering lake and stretches across a few miles of flowering bushes and dark rocky plain, proof of Mount Nyiragongo’s periodic tantrums. It would…
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WEST HIT ON RWANDA: Relief Big Calls Response Weak
by MICHAEL O. ALLEN in Nairobi and RICHARD SISK in Washington, Daily News Staff Writers | Friday, July 29, 1994 United Nations relief officials lashed out yesterday at what they viewed as the timid, pinch-penny response of the U.S. and its allies to the desperate plight of Rwanda’s refugees. All member states of the UN…
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THE ROAD TO KIGALI: Rwandans Trickle Home
Cholera prompts return by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Sunday, July 31, 1994 RUBAVU, Rwanda – The road to Kigali yesterday was filled with frustration, anger, sickness and hope that this impoverished nation would step back from the abyss of ethnic hatred. Rwandans, young and old, sick and healthy, were trickling back into…
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RETURNING TO RUINS: Rwandan Refugees Find War’s Debris
by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer | Monday, August 1, 1994 KIGALI. Rwanda – Thousands of Rwandan refugees returning home yesterday from camps in Zaire found their towns torn up by civil war. About 700 refugees riding into the capital in an United Nations truck convoy yesterday faced a city battered by three…
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Whew!
After the hard slog of the campaign, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton should now look into a long, long vacation. Until Nov. 5. Former President Bill Clinton doesn’t have to return. He should just stay gone. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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Good Sport
Jason Giambi was mobbed by teammates after reaching home. “This is what you dream about as a kid,” he said, “especially in Yankee Stadium.” (Photo by Barton Silverman/ The New York Times) Giambi’s Home Run Is a Pain Reliever By JOE LAPOINTE, June 6, 2008 After Jason Giambi’s titanic home run landed in the third…