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"The normative mode for treating kids is to lock them up--institutionalize them in some Oliver Twist-esque barn," Calhoun says, referring to the old training schools. He said that Massachusetts leads the country in the use of the more humane, community-based facilities like half-way houses.
Oliver was formally apprenticed. It was a nice sickly season just at this time ... and, in the course of a few weeks, Ol- iver acquired a great deal of experience.
Died. Oliver F. (Ollie) Atkins, 60, personal photographer to the President during Richard Nixon's White House years; of cancer; in Washington, Va. A longtime Saturday Evening Post staffer, Atkins traveled around the world with Nixon to record his presidency. But his most memorable photo was taken on Nixon...
The author's prose style is some times clouded by a purple hue, but his in sights are as clear as those in Lewis Thomas' Lives of a Cell. In one chapter Selzer defines the heart as "purest theatre . . . throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale. It...
Of course, not all the meals are horrendous, but then again, not everyone can survive on a diet that even Oliver Twist would find measly. Take last week, for instance: