Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...category of "extraordinary-needs children" was invented and quickly overpopulated by children drug addicted at birth, sexually abused at an early age or impaired by fetal alcohol syndrome. Many were doomed to fail in foster care. Annette Baran, 67, a psychotherapist and adoption expert, recalls, "In 1945, when the Holocaust children began arriving from Europe, everyone was dying to rescue them. But these kids could not be in nuclear families. They were so traumatized they couldn't trust. They couldn't be vulnerable. This is true of today's kids...
...fighting in Bosnia raged on, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic snubbed the world's top diplomat, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, refusing to meet with the U.N. Secretary-General at the Sarajevo airport. Boutros-Ghali later said if the Bosnian Serbs and Muslims fail to cooperate with the U.N. protection force, the organization may find it necessary to evacuate its peacekeepers...
...Clash once sang "Rudy Can't fail...
...second movement of the Sibelius reveals the worst flaws in the less-than-optimal engineering by Sony, which seemingly has Midori buried in the middle of the wood-winds. Without fail, Mehta produces the polished yet superficial orchestral veneer that one has come to expect from him, not helping matters at all. I suspect that Midori is attempting a subtler rendition of this concerto than normally heard, but if so, her efforts are not obvious enough for my taste. I do not encounter the "Nordic winter landscape" that Sibelius was said to strive for, so much as a vast sonic...
...more people in the same age category whom the editors identified as emerging leaders. Without seeming immodest, we may observe that we accurately predicted great futures for many of the individuals on our lists. We made some missteps, of course -- Marion Barry comes to mind -- and we did fail to notice some of those who were in their pupal leadership stage -- Newt Gingrich, say -- but the fact remains that we did pretty well. Nevertheless, we do find one question just slightly troubling: If the future leaders we chose were so great, how come we're still searching for leaders? William...