Word: laura
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...deeply appalled by the American legal system's giving custody of a child to a mother convicted of murdering her daughter [JUSTICE, July 20]. How could the court allow Latrena Pixley to have custody of her son Cornilous instead of giving it to Laura Blankman, the child's foster mother, who has cared for him for almost two years? The persisting belief that the biological mother is always the best person for a child is completely erroneous. To be a true mother, you must always have your child's best interest at heart. And that is the central failure...
...federal law, however, covers only those children who are already in a state's foster-care system when a biological parent seeks custody. Cornilous missed out on qualifying because his mother, while on probation for the murder of her daughter, allowed Laura Blankman, a woman she had befriended at the public defender's office, to take custody of her son informally. Blankman, 28, now a police officer, has cared for and supported Cornilous since he was three months old. Last fall she decided to adopt him. Pixley, by then in a part-time detention facility, resisted--even though...
...Bruce Willis & Demi Moore 2. Woody Harrelson & Laura Louie 3. Kevin Bacon & Kyra Sedgwick 4. Don Johnson & Melanie Griffith 5. Sean Penn & Robin Wright 6. Alec Baldwin & Kim Basinger 7. John Mellencamp & Elaine Irwin 8. Bob Geldof & Paula Yates 9. Chevy Chase & Jayne Chase 10. Larry King & Alene Akins 11. Robert Downey Jr. & Deborah Falconer 12. John Travolta & Kelly Preston...
...knew that. What puts this film over the top is the final, parting shot of Joseph Cotten on the road. Sooo good, you retch a little. 6. Foreign Correspondent (1940). Vintage controlled Hitchcock: clean lines, great plot and arresting images like the oft-copied black umbrella scene. 7. Laura (1944). Queen of the noirs. Don't get me started on Gene Tierney. 8. Cool Hand Luke (1967). It is impossible to see this movie too many times. And if you are the right kind of person, it will make you want to go to jail. 9. Treasure of the Sierra...
...support decent schools. "Was it fair for [rich towns] to have an advantage when somebody else's fundamental rights--in this case, a public education--were being denied?" asks Allen Gilbert, a parent from working-class Worcester. Spreading the burden through the state, says Randolph school-board member Laura Soares, whose town can now afford to build a new elementary school after a 30-year wait, "is the moral thing to do." And, the receivers contend, the wealthy are not only selfish but arrogant. "They're not used to losing debates," says state senator Cheryl Rivers, an architect...