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...thanks chiefly to the father's quashing of all affections lest the "bad" one be exposed, Bechdel compares her home life to an artist's colony rather than a family. "We ate together but were otherwise absorbed in our separate pursuits." One of these pursuits, to her father's credit, was a deep appreciation for literature, perhaps the only love he managed to pass on to his daughter...
...financial incentives and intensive campaigns to persuade people to take in some of society's most unwanted children. Monthly foster-care subsidies, which used to stop after a child was adopted, now continue typically until age 18 and average about $500 a month. In addition, the federal tax credit for adopting has more than doubled, from $5,000 in 2001 to $10,630 in 2005. And both national and state websites like adoptuskids.org and cominghomekansas.org have launched online photo galleries of older kids available for adoption...
Some of the credit for Kabila's "soft landing" in Kinshasa may be owed to the persistent intervention of President Nelson Mandela of South Africa, who together with Richardson spent weeks trying to broker a deal that would avoid major bloodshed. It was partly at Mandela's urging that Mobutu relinquished his dictatorship. But early last week the South African leader's effort appeared to have collapsed, after Kabila failed to appear for a meeting with Mandela and Mobutu aboard a South African naval vessel docked off the port of Pointe Noire. Mandela, who had been host aboard the same...
...Estimated average credit-card debt per U.S. card-holding household...
MORALES We have partnerships with U.S., European and Mexican companies as well as with Venezuela. The difference between Venezuela and other countries is that Venezuela supports us unconditionally, while countries like the U.S. always impose so many conditions in exchange for aid or credit...