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Your report on how children in foster care are being abused and neglected [SOCIETY, Nov. 13] brought me to tears. I was not surprised, however, having worked in children's services for more than five years. Social workers are put in a very difficult, if not impossible, situation. They work horrendous hours. They are under constant stress; they deal with angry and violent parents and are expected to find placements for children when there aren't any appropriate homes available. It's no wonder there is a turnover rate of 70%. The only answer is increased funding to supply...
...Crisis of Foster Care...
...office at Icon Productions, his company with its headquarters on the Paramount lot in Hollywood. "The Man Without a Face:" Gibson in silhouette in the distance, the actor shadowed in his 1993 directorial debut. "Ransom:" closeup of Gibson, blue eyes blazing with righteous desperation. "Maverick:" James Garner, Jodie Foster and Gibson, all of them smiling, no doubt thinking about how much they were paid. On each poster, on each face, Gibson has added a mustache with a heavy black marker - a graphic display of his famously self-deprecating sense of humor. Foster, for one, never looked so dashing...
...Palm Beach County's unexpectedly robust Buchanan vote was the earliest hint of madness in the post-election haze of November 8. Thousands of voters complained that the ballot's confusing design had led them to punch hole No. 4, for Pat Buchanan and Ezola Foster (odd, certainly, for a heavily Jewish community) instead of hole No. 5, for Gore and Joe Lieberman. (The ballot design had been approved by a Democrat, who was trying to enlarge the type for the benefit of those same largely elderly voters...
...While this new right should foster necessary changes at some universities, where graduate students are not treated fairly, Harvard will probably not feel the effects of the decision, as there has been little to no support for such a union. However, because Harvard seems to be the exception rather than the norm in its excellent rapport with graduate students, the NYU union should prompt similar, necessary action at private universities around the country...