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...been said that with that little book, Dickens invented Christmas -- the holiday as we know it, with lavish presents and greeting cards, with liberal sentiment and family gatherings, and with the spirit of generosity helping to stanch the guilty suspicion that we hadn't been charitable enough on the other 364 days. Shopkeepers and toymakers can thank Dickens; put-upon parents can blame him, though the commercial excesses perpetrated in the name of Christmas were the last thing this radical social reformer had in mind...
Then in 1988 a retired senior trial judge in Philadelphia named Lois Forer published a heartfelt article in the Washington Monthly about children she hadn't been able to save. There was April, age 10 her molesting stepfather had been jailed, but she was forced to continue living with her retarded mother and her alcoholic grandfather because, wrote Forer, "it was the policy . . . to keep the family together." Also Tyrone, 8, whose father, a boxing trainer, had beaten him so badly for wetting his bed that he bore 70 permanent scars: "No agency would even attempt to find placement...
...could be forced to attempt a "hostile extraction" of U.N. forces, and at least 10,000 American troops would be needed. In fact NATO is already speeding up its evacuation planning, and Perry asked for authority to tell the alliance the U.S. would participate. By week's end, Clinton hadn't made up his mind -- leaving another part of his Bosnia policy drifting...
...When it came time to run for class office, there were several people running who used all sorts of gimmicks and he just refused to use them," says Linda L. Lapin, who was Pan's class advisor in high school. "I almost regret that he hadn't, but he had just so much integrity.... we ended up with a president who just didn't follow through...
Harvard outplayed the Wildcats in the opening stanza, but it would have come out of the period scoreless if UNH netminder Trent Cavicchi hadn't given the Crimson an early Christmas present...