Word: motherless
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...Under the porch, we find a handful of motherless baby squirrels, alarmingly whitish and hairless, foetal and fumbling, wizened little old blind men. We put peanut butter out for them, and they eat it for a couple of days, but we have not seen them since Friday...
...goosebumps. When she then made the entire hall sing it in parts, my hair stood on end. It is the magic of Sweet Honey that can turn an audience that would otherwise sound like a football mob into a 1,000-strong choir. When they sang “Motherless Chile,” I had to dry my eyes...
...year-old girl, whose mother risked everything to remove her from the tiny island country of her birth, a country that is wracked by political turmoil and economic misery. After bringing Sophonie to the United States, her mother died, leaving Sophonie without care. Unlike a more well-known young motherless child, Sophonie has drawn no crowds. No marches or national work boycotts are being held in her honor. No one calls her survival a "miracle." The public is largely indifferent to Sophonie's plight because she comes from the island of Haiti rather than the island of Cuba...
...hope that the United States government will begin to treat all refugees equally, and that there will soon be television crews and front-page headlines for this motherless girl from Haiti...
...have to thank for this montage of manipulation? The media, of course (yours truly included). What began as a human catastrophe (refugees drown at sea, motherless boy picked up by kindly fishermen) has been turned into something far less redeeming than a circus. When this fifth-rate soap opera began, there was talk of various positive, if peripheral, consequences. Could this little boy's plight push the U.S. government into a more reasonable relationship with Cuba? Would there be a heartwarming and speedy reunion between Elian and his father? Might the members of the American media be able...