Word: harde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their new daughter Rebecca are just beginning to work out some answers -- a process that is not without pain. Nicole admits she felt "a tearing away" when the Evanses went home from the hospital with the baby; she paid her first visit the very next day. "It's been hard for us to hear the true sadness in Nicole's voice," admits Jan, "when we have felt so much joy." More than once Nicole has had to battle the urge to pick up Rebecca and run, particularly when Jan went out shopping and left them alone together...
RAISING THE TOP BRACKET. Right now the top marginal tax rate rises to 33% for people earning roughly $50,000 to $200,000, then falls back down to 28%. It's hard to argue that this is fair, though I've loved every minute of it. If the top marginal rate stuck at 33% -- for the rich and not just the upper middle class -- it would raise billions that could be used to lower other taxes...
...speak of the rewards as often as the difficulties. Says Sam Borodin of Philadelphia, who with his wife has adopted three girls with Down syndrome: "They have given us joy and love back tenfold." But there are times when caring for a child with special needs can be too hard a test. In Texas a group of seven couples has brought a lawsuit against the state adoption agency, charging that they should have been told that their adopted children had been abused. As the children approached adolescence, they began to behave in a bizarre and sometimes violent fashion, hacking...
...creations are less likely to cause confusion the further one gets from hard news -- and from the present day. The old CBS News series You Are There ^ used actors to dramatize historical events and did no permanent harm to the Republic. CBS's new series Rescue 911, which features re-enactments of hairbreadth rescue missions, is quite entertaining and probably harmless. In general, however, the technique's proliferation is fudging the line between news and entertainment, and news is the loser...
...world's capital of contemporary as well as ancient art, and the young artist was absorbing the lessons of Caravaggio, Poussin and Guido Reni), and the second time because Velazquez, now in his 50s, was basking in his European reputation. And in between, nothing but security and hard work...