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Some 33 states and the District of Columbia guarantee indigent parents the right to counsel in parental termination cases, which often are instigated by a social worker who believes a child is being abused or neglected. How these states will interpret the court's decision remains to be seen. Says Marcia Lowry, director of the New York-based Children's Rights Project, an offshoot of the American Civil Liberties Union: "Without the right to counsel, these hearings are not going to be hearings." Furthermore, many of the lawyers appointed in these cases are funded by the Legal Services...
...poll by Asahi Shimbun last week showed that only 21% of the legislators in Japan's Diet believe the government. A more truthful way out might be in the very loophole that, says Reischauer, has been used for two decades. The two countries have apparently agreed to interpret the "introduction" of nuclear weapons in different ways. Mochikomi, the Japanese word, can mean a vague "carrying in." But the English "to introduce," Reischauer argues, "sounds as though we are setting them up in permanent position, for storage or as missiles or something. We promised not to do that...
Kornetsky harvests what possibilties there are in the ambiguity of the work. There remains a lot of room for a director to interpret and experiment in a play so uncertainly structured. She does well in articulating the separateness of the scenes, which Wilson has ordered just arbitrarily enough to prove to skeptics that, yes, this is art. She is helped enormously by Wayne Kramer's set, which suspends translucent panes to suggest, in turn, a church, a court, a restaurant, or a porch; it simply but effectively divides up the stage to focus attention Kornetsky's tableaux. Reflecting...
...characters are left in affected poses, muttering cliches. But the softness of Morrison's prose when she describes the dreams of her characters, plus her sensitivity to the historical traditions that created Black America, save the novel from total affectation. The symbols which Black Americans use to interpret much of their lives do not only hold the identity of these characters, they release the best in Morrison's creativity...
...findings should contribute to the current policy debate by helping policy makers interpret the vote on Proposition 2 1/2 and better understand what Massachusetts citizens want in the way of changes in services, tax reform, and government operations," Helen F. Ladd, assistant professor of City and Regional Planning, and the other researcher, said yesterday...