The last empress

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Bruce is the widow of former US ambassador to the UK David Bruce. The runaway shelter she helped found after her daughter's death is discussed, along with her past and her present life in Washington, DC. Bruce has written a book, 'Napoleon and Josephine: An Improbable Marriage.'

Biography, Bruce, Evangeline Bell

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The master's final piece: after more than two decades of warming that wing chair, Alistair Cooke says his last, lockjawed "good night." (Masterpiece Theatre host retires)

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Cooke has served as host of 'Masterpiece Theatre' for 22 years. He will continue with his British radio broadcast 'Letter from America.' At the age of 84, he is still regarded highly for generating appreciation of literary classics not well known by TV audiences in the US.

Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Personalities, Masterpiece Theatre (Television program), Cooke, Alistair

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The last place on Earth

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Animists and Christians are being slaughtered by fundamentalist Muslims in Sudan's civil war. People are homeless, children are starving and women are being raped. The people of southern Sudan are isolated without an infrastructure or electricity.

Military aspects, Civil war, Sudan

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