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...main caretaker at the orphanage, Ms. Bui Thi Thanh Tuyen, said there was a reason that Pax - usually known as an exceptionally cheerful child - was caught off guard Thursday: wasn't actually told by the staff that he was being adopted that day. "We did not say anything to him, afraid we might put pressure on him and more frightened," Tuyen said. "We just told him that we are taking him out. You are going to play outside - play with a mother and father...
...Diamond, you might still be looking for a spot. In the 1940s, faced with a postwar shortage of parking-lot attendants, he set up self-pay boxes to collect fees. His tactics, like attaching 50-gal. drums to the tires of unpaid vehicles, irked customers, but his idea caught on, helping make self-pay systems standard in lots across the country...
...course, teens continued to assault people and steal cars. But instead of going to the state-run jail, those caught and convicted had to make various community-building reparations like apologizing to the victim, paying restitution and participating in service projects or apprenticeships. In seven years the county's youth-incarceration rate dropped 25%, and the number of teens who received citations or were arrested for crimes went down 28%. According to Bob La Combe, who runs the county's juvenile system, young people are "making the connection between the crime they committed and the harm to the community...
...should have stuck with journalism. Meanwhile, Anna warms to a sensitive Iraqi photojournalist named Zaid. Zaid, at the very leasts, shows her that there are attractive men. Zaid is yet another simplistic character, a quintessential good guy lacking not only flaws, but also any other traits that might have caught this reviewer’s interest. Director Phillip Haas convincingly evokes the paranoid atmosphere in Iraq, with its confusing web of alliances and grotesque ironies. Particularly successful is the portrait of the Green Zone, even if it is driven home rather more emphatically than necessary: Anna and Dan lounge...
...Secret Lives of Umbrellas” has nothing to do with umbrellas. Nor does it deal with secret lives either. But the absurdist qualities of this original play by Jessica S. Benjamin ’07 were what caught the attention of director Dipika Guha during a read-through of the script in their playwriting class. Before last semester, Benjamin had never written or produced a play, and her only experience as an actor was in a sixth grade production of “Hamlet.” But when assigned to write a play as a final project...