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...reason for keeping Eileen in the house is to ensure that Michael, age 7, will not be taken from him again and given over to a foster home. That has happened three times, when Mallory left Michael alone in the house. Mallory was reported for neglect. He lets Eileen stay to make it appear as if the boy has a stable home, even though Mallory calls Eileen a bad mother, who will run off with anybody anytime. He cared for her once, he says, but now he cares only for Michael. He will buy Michael a bike for Christmas...
...tenured four Black faculty members--in the last 10 years, it has added only two. Furthermore, 15 years after its violent birth, the Afro-American Studies Department continues as an impoverished ghetto, lacking crucial resources and faculty. Its current anemia is less the product of feeble inception than malnourished neglect...
Harris, however, is miraculously able to redeem his character on the strength of only one scene, arguably the best movie history since Harrison Ford taught Kelly McGillis how to bop in Witness. Feeling contrite about his continual neglect of his wife and baby, boot-camp confined Dick jumps on a hot motorcycle and cruises the hundred or so miles back home just so he can drag his somnambulent wife out into the pouring rain for a slow dance in front of the nightclub where they met. As he cuddles against Cline's rain-soaked nightgown, it's impossible...
Harvard boasts of its laissez-faire computer policy; for those with lean pocketbooks, it might be more accurately described as malign neglect. The University does not simply leave those unable to afford personal computers out in the cold—it burns them with scorn and degradation...
...alarmed. Schools across the country have been shaken by yet another series of athletic scandals involving gambling on rigged games, alleged cocaine traffic among players, and recruiting payoffs. Underlying these recurrent problems, says Edwards, a sports sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley, is a deeper issue: the colleges' neglect of the education of their athletes. "I've known athletes . . . who are functional illiterates and have been here for four years," says Edwards, a former college basketball player and track star. "If this is going on at Berkeley, which is supposed to have such integrity, imagine what's going...