Word: fostering
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...hotel's main doors, the same entryway where John Hinckley Jr. delivered his crazed love letter to Jodie Foster in 1981, a group of adolescent girls gathered to scream at the famous as they entered. Some of the shrieks came for a trio of moppy-headed teenagers, who someone identified to me as the Jonas Brothers, a hot new teenie-bop sensation, like a grade-school version of the Monkees with better hair. They wore tight pants and looked terrified, staying close to their bodyguard, a serious-looking fellow roughly the size of a compact European...
...best is paint a picture of an isolated, lonely existence. All of the characters in the novel are in some way alone. Ares’ mother struggles to raise two children and pay the bills all on her own. Kevin struggles to find a sense of self in a foster home where he feels out of place. And Malcolm is the most alone, unable to communicate with those who love him and unable to understand much of the world around him. The town, too, is isolated: it is not too far from the city of San Diego...
...whose modest appearance was jarring with their sexually aberrant lifestyle. First came the jokes, then some hard realities sank in. Hundreds of children were being separated from the only families they ever knew. Shuttled from one temporary facility to another, they are now being dispersed throughout Texas' already overtaxed foster-care system, from the Panhandle all the way to Houston. Why? Because an anonymous call from inside the ranch alleged that the kids were in danger of physical and emotional abuse, given the ranch culture of young girls, older men and arranged marriages. Nearly a month after the raid...
...Barrios ’90, a former Massachusetts senator and representative who is gay, said an LGBT candidate should not “run from the issue” once elected to office. He said an LGBT candidate—just like any other candidate—should foster close communication with constituents to humanize himself so that attacks regarding his sexual orientation do not define him or her. “We are the people who were the poster children—who had to be, in an important way, because it was our families that were affected...
...frosh Weekend” approaches once again, many on campus say they fear that the event’s tendency to foster close cultural bonds might actually counteract its positive mission by promoting self-segregation in the face of Harvard’s drive to diversify...