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...Holland began doing drugs in 1982, at age 17, when her first child, Tracee, was a year old. The young mother's life unraveled; they found themselves living in an abandoned house with no heat and no gas. Holland signed the baby into foster care. Over the next eight years, while nurturing an escalating habit, she managed to have two more daughters, Rickiyah and Cade. She abandoned them, leaving them with a friend shortly after her boyfriend began dealing and sharing his drugs. "That's when I started thinking about killing myself," she says...
...such a modest curriculum would actually untangle the web of misfortune and bad habits leading to abandonment might seem implausible were it not for the program's success rate. Of 200 women who have attended since the Washington program's inception, not one has abandoned her child. As Angela Holland testifies, "They taught me how to get my life back together again...
...Holocaust is such an event. It is a topic -- the systematic destruction of European Jewry under Nazism -- that American movies have taken up gingerly, and only occasionally. It has been left mostly to the documentarians and to Europeans like Agnieszka Holland, who made the devastating Europa, Europa. But these are art-house films with small audiences...
...During peak periods when there is a scarcity of taxis, this allows the driver to get more than one fare," said Mike P. Holland, Director of Operations of the Brattle Transportation Services...
...Everything is more efficient," Holland said. "The customer saves money, the driver makes out and conserves fueland reduces auto emissions...