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...although the present picture appears grim, McCarthy insists that his business does not depend on an adolescent clientele...
Restaveks who do get away have grim stories to tell. A young man recently went to Romer with hideous burns from an iron, a punishment by his West Palm Beach, Fla., "host" family whenever he didn't press their clothes correctly. Aside from losing their childhood, restaveks suffer separation from their own families. At the Maurice Sixto shelter in Port-au-Prince, Ania Derice, 18, recalls how her parents in rural central Haiti, who couldn't afford to feed and clothe her, sent her to a house in Port-au-Prince to be a restavek. When Ania was 12--after...
...When Gephardt joined in, it was to underscore what the Democrats see as the irresponsibility inherent in Bush's plan. "If what the President said tonight sounded too good to be true," he warned, "it probably is." He went on to paint a grim picture of all the programs that would suffer if the surplus were gobbled up by a tax break: Medicare, prescription benefits, higher minimum wage and improved public schools...
...Thompson presented his grim findings at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science - after which more than a few hard-core scientists were quoted describing Thompson's highly technical report as, simply, "depressing...
...Hopkins held Pomey's hand, a Pudding actor clad in a black grim's reaper's suit and white mask limped onto the stage...