Word: ef
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When Cathy phoned the sponsoring agency, EF Au Pair of Cambridge, Massachussetts, she was stunned by their refusal to help. "They literally told us we could put her out on the street, and that she could now find her own way home," Cathy recalls. (An agency spokesman says that she is unfamiliar with the case, but that the standard response is to "do what we can" to help an au pair return home.) Instead the Lynches helped Saskia make her travel arrangements. Then, not wanting to squander their nonrefundable program fee of roughly $2,700, they demanded a replacement. This...
Heartened by their second au pair experience but now leery of EF Au Pair, the Lynches then signed with the Connecticut-based Au Pair in America, another of the eight private agencies designated by the U.S. Information Agency to match American families with European au pairs who are between the ages of 18 and 25. Melanie, 19, promptly erected a vast photo shrine of the child she had cared for back home in England, then cried and cried. Three days later, an agency counselor visited and suggested that Melanie leave within 24 hours. Exit Melanie, enter Katja, a 22-year...
...Kings on the west bank of the Nile, across from the city of Luxor in Upper Egypt. The tomb of King Tuthmosis IV (reigned 1413-1405 B.C.), discovered in 1903, is one of the largest of the 18th dynasty. The tomb of Prince Ramses Montu-Hir Khobsh-Ef (1137-1117 B.C.), the son of King Ramses IX, was unearthed...