Word: corbetts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ritz Survey of Colleges and Universities recently released "preview" ratings of the Ivy League schools, based on more than 2,000 on-line student responses, according to an e-mail message from Jim Corbett, the editor of Ritz Survey...
Vickie and Joe Corbett don't have the luxury of spoiling their granddaughter Tiana and then just sending her back to Mom. These North Carolina grandparents tuck Tiana into bed at night and make her breakfast every morning; they pay for her school and her doctors. Instead of traveling and seeing friends, as they expected to do in their autumn years, they are back in the business of going to birthday parties and pta meetings. For the past seven years, since Tiana's mother left the baby with a sitter and never picked her up (her father moved...
What helps? Social workers and attorneys who strive to understand. Lawmakers who consider the needs of this population. And support groups, like GAP and those run by New York's department for the aging, that offer resources and reduce isolation. Vickie Corbett started her own group in Rocky Mountain, N.C., for that reason. "Honest to goodness, it saved my life," she says...
...Corbett also admits that her unexpected job has its rewards. The best part, she says, is when Tiana says after a bad day, "'You know I love you and Grandpa more than anything in the world,' and that makes it O.K." Some parts of being a parent are worth repeating...
...Serbs have slaughtered hundreds and burned villages. Russia's Yevgeni Primakov and Milosevic have hugged and laughed, and President Clinton has played golf. What a sick situation! If ground troops become involved, it will be even sicker. VINCENT CORBETT Morrison, Colo...