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...Buddy is narrated by Bud Caldwell, 10, who goes "on the lam" from an unpleasant foster home in Flint, Mich., in search of his father. Like his resourceful young hero, Curtis grew up in Flint. After graduating from high school, he joined the assembly line at Fisher Body Plant No. 1 and began writing during his breaks. He didn't set out to be a children's author. But, he says, "I felt I had a story to tell, and for some reason the voice came to me as a 10-year-old." Many years and several jobs later...
...CRLS Principal Paula Evans has proposed smaller, more autonomous schools that foster a sense of community among their students. Without being able to take classes in different houses, the students will be responsible to a core group of house teachers, who will also advise them...
...Elian Gonzalez saga is a one-of-a-kind international showdown, but it's also part of a rising American debate over parents' rights. In Chicago birth parents are pitted against foster parents, and some blacks are charging the courts with racial insensitivity. In the U.S. Supreme Court this week, grandparents are squaring off against parents over the right to visit their grandchildren. Across the U.S., courts are being flooded with cases involving custody and visitation for homosexuals who have been estranged from the children they parented. At the heart of all these disputes is a wrenching legal and emotional...
Baby T, who will be four next month, was born with cocaine in his blood. His birth mother, Tina Olison, is a single mother with a 20-year history of drug abuse. Eight days after his birth, he was placed in foster care with Edward Burke, a powerful Democratic alderman, and his wife Anne, an Illinois appeals-court judge. Over the next three years, the Burkes bonded with Baby T, while Olison stopped using drugs...
...already begun taking meetings. So far she's talked to practically every studio, as well as Robert De Niro and director Michael Bay. Last week she met Ridley Scott, who's scouting a female lead for Hannibal now that Jodie Foster has declined to reprise her Silence of the Lambs role. "I haven't sat with [Martin] Scorsese yet," says Swank, who's angling for a part in his Gangs of New York opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, though she hears Cameron Diaz has an inside track. "That will be my truly impressive meeting...