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...died more than a decade ago, and it was devastating. But my father remained my close confidant, trusted adviser and safety net. If I got a new job or girlfriend, he'd be first to know--and if either didn't last, he'd lend a sympathetic ear. As long as my dad was around, I was his kid. And, just like the Dylan song, I felt forever young--staying single, going skateboarding, enjoying trashy monster movies. Forty-two going on 14, and proud...
Still, face-to-face contact is crucial. "If I hadn't got the hugs and kisses from my mom and the whispers in my ear," says Nakea Walker, 25, of Staten Island, N.Y., "I know I wouldn't have made it." Walker was 16 when her late mother was sent to a prison in upstate New York, nine hours away. Her five siblings was sent to a foster home. Walker has been fighting to reunite her family. The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 will probably send more kids like Walker's siblings into foster care. It allows courts...
...production as smooth as newly printed bills. One of the best tracks, Body II Body, wriggles and sweats like two teens making out in the backseat of a small car (it also features a smartly chosen sample from David Bowie's Ashes to Ashes). Mumba's music is ear candy: it crunches, it bubbles, it melts in the mouth. Her vernal personality (she co-wrote seven of the 12 songs) is what gives her CD lasting flavor. She's soulful but never oversings her material; youthful but never comes off as childish...
...audience comes equipped with its own ear horns. They block people's view, but all hear perfectly...
...Although he previously had Washington's ear as the popular, pacifist advocate of independence for Kosovo, that changed after the Rambouillet talks early in 1999 when the West began to gear up to fight Slobodan Milosevic for control of the territory. The war saw Rugova eclipsed by the KLA leadership, and by the time it ended State Department officials were feting Thaci and expressing wariness over Rugova. But the continuing violence in Kosovo, which includes both attacks on the remaining Serbs and internecine Albanian turf wars, may have turned many Kosovar Albanians back to Rugova, particularly in light...