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Why would you take on a child that wasn't yours, especially when it's handicapped?" locals scorned. She knew that taking in a black child would be even more difficult in what she called a rural climate of racism and small-mindedness. There are no black people in her village. But she felt the child would be better off in France. "I wanted to save an orphan from war and hunger. I wanted there to be one less child suffering in the world. None of us were doing anything wrong," she told the Guardian. Yesterday, seven French people from the association Zoe's Ark remained in detention in Chad, charged with abduction and fraud after they were stopped trying to fly 103 children out of the impoverished African country which borders Sudan's Darfur region. Two French journalists and seven Spanish crew members of the plane they had chartered were also being held.
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Power squadron events
The Fort Myers Power Squadron has a series of events lined up for the remaining weeks of February into March.
On Saturday, Feb. 16, a luncheon will be held at the Channel Mark Restaurant (by car or by boat).
On Saturday, Feb. 23, a Global Positioning Class (GPS) will be held. On Saturday, March 1, a Boat Smart class will be held. On Thursday, March 6, a Squadron Dinner Meeting will be held. On Saturday, March 8, another Boat Smart class will be held.
Fidel Castro hands over power
I believe that one has to be consistent right up to the end," Fidel Castro wrote in his resignation letter Tuesday, and he was. The world may long argue whether he was a communist or a social reformer, a mad tyrant or a visionary savior, but no one will ever doubt that he was a shrewd survivor who left power just as he ruled: on his own terms. Defying the expectations - and, in many cases, the hopes - of an eternally bemused world, Castro bowed out not a step or two ahead of an enemy tank or a mob of angry voters, but on a timetable of his own choice, handing Cuba over like a family heirloom to his little brother. He outlived the Soviet Union, the nation that inspired him, succored him and sometimes betrayed him. He outlasted nine U.S. administrations that tried, with varying degrees of enthusiasm, to topple him.
LivingWell names new program director
LivingWell Cancer Resource Center, a complementary cancer resource center in the Fox Valley, has announced the appointment of Jillian Smallwood as program director. Smallwood will be responsible for oversight of the 30 programs provided by LivingWell, as well as work with a staff of five program personnel and dozens of professional volunteers. She will also oversee the planning, development, implementation and oversight of all programs and services offered at LivingWell. .
SPORTS TRIBUNE
On the whole, it has been a typically dismal year for India so far. The team lost 1-3 to Pakistan in a six-match home-and-away Test series. The then coach Rajinder tried a new-look forward line, including Didar Singh, Rajpal Singh, Tushar Khandekar and Arjun Halappa, but the strikers rarely delivered when it mattered the most. The Commonwealth Games in Melbourne saw the Indians finishing a poor sixth. This flop show precipitated Rajinders sack, even though he claimed later that he had himself stepped down. History repeated itself farcically as yet another Indian hockey coach left on a bitter note, lambasting the powers that be for the sorry state of affairs. Bhaskaran has been in the hot seat before. He was the coach when India won the Azlan Shah Cup in 1995. This time, the team can at best finish fourth or fifth.
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