Word: orphans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...Today, the show continues to support the message of “we are different but we are the same,” Knell said. Knell showed a clip from the South African version of Sesame Street featuring a muppet named Kami, who is a five-year-old AIDS orphan. In the United States, the next season will focus on environmental messages, he said. One of the main goals of Sesame Street is to promote basic learning at a time when most fourth-graders can’t read at grade level. A new initiative is a podcast called...
...Fred seizes the reins from his ailing brother and makes the Christmas Eve round-the-world tour himself. He brings the joy of getting to every child, including the Afro-American orphan, and there is joy in every land, and at the North Pole. It's all meant to bring edifying moisture to audiences' eyes. The more susceptible moviegoers may shed a tear or two, but they risk hating themselves in the morning. On the upside, they don't have to wait to hate Fred Claus...
...Fred Claus” content, sort of. The all-star team—Giamatti, Bates, Weisz, Richardson, Spacey, and Vaughn—delivers strong, impassioned performances, especially in light of the weak dialogue and story line they’re faced with. Vaughn’s interactions with an orphan boy named Slam, played by Bobb’e J. Thompson, stand out as particularly cute with a capital K. “Fred Claus” is not a movie one buys and adds to the family collection alongside “Christmas Vacation?...