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...such pocket is Malanje, 330 km east of Luanda and one of the largest provincial capitals. Despite a population of 250,000, swollen by the arrival of 50,000 refugees during the past year, it remains a ghost town. At a government health office, 100 children, mostly orphans, beg for meals. In a center run by nuns, men scuffle violently over food...
...movie's first hour plays like a 1930s version of the "The Wonder Years." We watch the story's hero Aaron Kurlander (Jesse Bradford) experience life's small joys and hardships: first kisses and school bullies, games of marbles and overbearing authority figures. Although these scenes practically beg for cliched voice-over narration and close-ups of Fred Savage-like doe eyes, they manage to exude charm...
Pasquarello said the area homeless have no reason to beg because plenty of shelters in the area provide free food...
...kids who save up, or beg their parents, love this stuff. I used to coach Little League baseball in Pasadena, and, as a result, I am well acquainted with more than 100 fairly athletic children ages nine to 14. So I decided to run a test...
...friend to talk to the victim, to try to convince her to come forward and press charges; still, I know this is unlikely to work. Trapped at the end of a chain of whispers and secrets, I am speaking out as best I can. I want to beg any woman who has been raped to fight back publicly, to break out of the silence that frightens and oppresses all women. And I challenge every member of the Harvard community to fight to create an atmosphere that supports and strengthens women in all aspects of our lives...