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...territorial issues are tricky at PBHA in the summer, when students run several summer camps through the Summer Urban Program (SUP) and demand for student volunteers is high. With an increase in public service internship opportunities, some students could consider setting sail for brighter shores than Cambrdige for a summer of service...
...Combs' best week. In addition to losing Lopez, he suffered a major blow at his ongoing weapons' possession and bribery trial when his driver, Wardell Fenderson, testified that Combs offered him $50,000 to take the rap after shots rang out at a New York City nightclub. On the brighter side, Combs could see Lopez again soon, albeit under the less-than-glamorous lighting of a witness...
...becoming a breadwinner. Most orphans sink into penury, drop out of school, suffer malnutrition, ostracism, psychic distress. Their makeshift households scramble to live on pitiful handouts--from overstretched relatives, a kind neighbor, a state grant--or they beg and steal in the streets. The orphans' present desperation forecloses a brighter future. "They hardly ever succeed in having a life," says Siphelile Kaseke, 22, a counselor at an AIDS orphans' camp near Bulawayo. Without education, girls fall into prostitution, and older boys migrate illegally to South Africa, leaving the younger ones to go on the streets...
...Against Drugs and submit to a substance-abuse assessment within three months. For some reason, Houston never did get that assessment. Now prosecutors have asked a judge to reopen the charges against her. If convicted, Houston could be singing the jailhouse blues for up to 30 days. On the brighter side, if she has to serve, there's a likelihood that she'll forget the whole experience a few days later...
...tiger lilies from Flowerbud.com which had arrived by FedEx early that morning, was predominantly green because the lilies hadn't begun to open. "It doesn't feel like getting flowers," remarked a co-worker. "It's more like getting grass." The $62 multicolored tulips hand-delivered from 1-800-Flowers.com were brighter but a little ragged and carelessly arranged. I immediately tossed one droopy stem, and by the next day there were more brown petals...