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Typically, mediation involves a single session of two and a half to five hours in length. The child and the person or agency who filed the CHINS petition meet with two mediators, one of whom is young and hopefully likely to elicit the child's trust. Eighty-two percent of mediations result in a written agreement between the child and the filer of the petition. This agreement includes specific concessions by both parties--a parent might promise to let his child stay out until 11:00 every night and the child would in turn promise to wash the dishes after...
...university has as its voice on the Middle East is pretty important these days," he said, explaining that the current unrest in the area has prompted journalists to elicit regular opinions from academic specialists...
Foundation Director S. Allen Counter, the driving force behind the agency last year, is right to try to elicit increased student leadership and to fight separatism. His political and cultural programs also sound promising. Students, majority and minority should lend their support to the Foundation and participate in its activities. And Counter, for his part should try to be more open than last year about the agency's plans for easing campus racial tension...
Foundation Director S. Allen Counter, the driving force behind the agency last year, is right to try to elicit increased student leadership and to fight separatism. His political and cultural programs also sound promising. Students, majority and minority, should lend their support to the Foundation and participate in its activities. And Counter, for his part, should try to be more open than last year about the agency's plans for easing campus racial tension...
Foundation Director S. Allen Counter, the driving force behind the agency last year, is right to try to elicit increased student leadership and to fight separatism. His political and cultural programs also sound promising. Students, majority and minority should lend their support to the Foundation and participate in its activities. And Counter, for his part should try to be more open than last year about the agency's plans for easing campus racial tension...