Word: orphaned
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...later filmmaker) François Truffaut, who accused Delannoy of clinging to an antiquated and pedestrian style. Yet in 1946, before Truffaut's time, Delannoy earned a Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his most notable work, La Symphonie Pastoral, the tragic love story of a blind orphan...
...growing problem. Basically, it's the economy," says Brent Glover, who has run Idaho's Orphan Acres since 1975 and has found new homes for 1,600 rescued horses. "We're getting calls constantly." With more horses coming onto his 50-acre refuge, he is feeling the pinch of a hay bill that has risen from $28,000 to $80,000 this year, not to mention rising transportation and grain costs. "It's a horrible mess of bad consequences," says Colorado State University animal sciences Professor Temple Grandin. "People are turning them loose because of the decline in discretionary spending...
...past endure. Running water and electricity remain an ambition for thousands. Unemployment is 40%. Crime and drug addiction still thrive, and AIDS has decimated the population. Bryer says several of the choir members are HIV positive; many others are the sole breadwinners for extended families that include several AIDS orphans. Even if it had the money to flaunt its success, the choir decided early on not to do so, but instead to channel its energy and fund-raising abilities toward community projects, particularly the choir's own AIDS orphan foundation, Vukani. "We couldn't lose touch with what's happening...
...organizations. Warigia M. Bowman, a Harvard graduate student who serves as the secretary for Harvard Kenyans, said that ensuring that aid gets into the right hands can be difficult. As a result, Bowman said the group is identifying organizations that are run by Harvard affiliates. One such group is Orphan Wisdom, a non-profit started by Elizabeth J. A. Siwo-Okundi, a student at Harvard Divinity School, which helps run an orphanage and school in rural Kenya. The aid effort is complicated by the sensitivity of the political situation, which sometimes spills over into the Kenyan community at Harvard, Bowman...
...angels' getting their wings. Christmas is about the kids' getting their due. It's a time of disappointment and bullies but also of dreams--even as they discover it's one of the many ways that society converts dreams into money, as when Ralphie sends away for a Little Orphan Annie decoder pin, which tells him to drink his Ovaltine. ("A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch...