Word: guardian
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...Alexander is all too human. He finds himself retreating from a universe whose significance eludes him and undone by persistent echoes of childhood. It was then that his mother Alice abandoned her family -- but not before she convinced the boy that there are such phenomena as ghosts and guardian angels. As Alexander edges toward nervous collapse, Alice returns from a 20-year absence. With her is Cleo, a seductive and hilarious blond, flourishing every new-age artifice from palmistry and crystal therapy to numerology and astrology. Smitten, Alexander finds himself pulled toward opposing terminals: the arena of scientific investigation...
...tell us. So far he hasn't. The College should not limit the ability of students to make these vital cost-benefit calculations. The restrictions undermine an important function of college life--to provide an arena in which students make these kinds of decisions without a watchful parent or guardian to oversee them...
...Both Lynette and her separated Army husband had been ordered to Saudi Arabia, and Ikea needed a new home right away. Of course, answered Jarmon, promptly placing her life, and her Ph.D. thesis in social work, on hold. She had signed papers earlier agreeing to become her granddaughter's guardian in case of a military deployment. But now she says, "I never thought of war; it never entered my mind...
...engaged in combat," says Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, "to reverse our long-standing policy that single parents and military couples are fully deployable and available for assignment anywhere in the world." To make sure that children are not simply abandoned, the Pentagon insists that parents appoint a guardian for them. Each service also operates a family-support network that includes counseling for custodians and the children. But there are no special exemptions from war-zone service for military couples or single parents...
...lived in mental hospitals since 1951, but even if his previous competence had been unquestionable, he now has no immediate family or close friends who could tell a court whether he wanted life-prolonging care. In June an Eau Claire County Circuit Court judge decided that L.W.'s legal guardian, Paul Lenz, has the right to decide whether to halt life supports. Lenz has appealed to the state supreme court for guidance...