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...highlight of the afternoon's speeches was Sen. Kennedy's address. He outlined the five major points he would like to see Medicare address. These include: better adoption and dissemination of effective new treatments; improved delivery of outpatient and preventive care to the elderly; and encouraging the elderly to adopt healthier lifestyles...
Although police inspector Javert (Todd Alan Johnson) is hot on his trail, Valjean stays with the dying Fantine in the hospital and decides to adopt her child as his own, rescuing the young Cosette (Danielle Raniere) from the clutches of the evil, greedy Thenardiers (J.P. Dougherty and Tregoeny Sheperd). Ten years later in Paris, a grown Cosette (Kate Fisher) falls in love with the student Marius (Rich Affannato), whom the Thenardiers' daughter eponine (Rona Figueroa) also secretly loves. Meanwhile, all Paris is one the brink of revolution, which breaks out with appropriate passion in Act II, bringing all the characters...
IMAGE BUILDERS The third tier contains the most companies, and they number in the hundreds, and possibly thousands, of firms. This is the level of pure-cause marketing, where a company is apt to adopt a cause as a way to brighten its own corporate image. For example, insurance giant Prudential, battered by years of negative publicity surrounding its agents' sales practices, last year began sponsoring a national youth-volunteerism campaign. Spokesman Robert DeFillippo acknowledges that the campaign is helping rebuild Prudential's image. But "you can't tie them directly," he says. "We're 120 years old and have...
...because women can have babies past their prime, just like men, does it mean they should abuse the privilege, just like men? Why not adopt an older child? Isn't having a baby so late selfish--especially if both are codgers--robbing a child of parents who can toss a ball and chaperone the camping trip...
...founded the Native American studies program, and Erdrich, also part Native American, was a student and later a writer-in-residence. While Erdrich won praise for her fiction, Dorris' most recognized achievement was his 1989 nonfiction book The Broken Cord. In it Dorris describes how, at age 26, he adopted a three-year-old Sioux boy, becoming one of the first single men in America to legally adopt a child. The child, Abel, had a constellation of mental and physical disabilities caused by the fact that his mother drank heavily during her pregnancy. Part memoir, part medical investigation into fetal...