Word: parented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Community members from United Baptist Church Pastor Rev. Jeffrey Brown to concerned parent and Cambridge resident Caroline Hunter took the microphone to defend affirmative action...
...lived with an alcoholic, I am not sure it is possible to understand what it is like to be a child growing up with an alcoholic parent. I believe it must be exquisitely painful when that parent is the mother. Like Gina, my own father died when I was 10 or 11. Very often there is no one to turn to for help...
Cheyenne was devastated when a judge ruled three weeks ago that Tuki would have to remain in the custody of Cheyenne's mother. It was while her mother was at Easter services that she took her life. Brando decided against flying to Tahiti, but, ever the domineering parent, he tried to have Cheyenne buried on his private atoll of Tetiaroa. Instead, she was laid to rest in the Drollet family crypt in Faa'a. CHEYENNE WITH DAG FOR ETERNITY, read the headline in La Depeche de Tahiti...
...property-tax caps and budget cutbacks, no child is entitled to much; these days state and local funding for education is stretched just to cover the basics. Class sizes are inching up; music, sports and other activities are being eliminated. In communities rich enough for parents to pitch in and pay for some of these "extras,'' there is an understandable impulse to do so. In the Chicago suburb of Kenilworth, for example, the Parent Volunteer Association of the Joseph Sears primary school raised $92,000 last year to build a new playground. Similarly, a parent booster club at the Kenter...
...since they do have the money, say opponents of parent donations, there's a greater likelihood that in the long run more and more schools will be left with scraps. "Fund raising doesn't respond to the real needs of schools. That's nickels and dimes," says Robert Weintraub, principal of Brookline High School. "Brookline has lost $4 million in state funds [in recent years]. It creates a cycle of abandonment...