Word: parented
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...public colleges and universities. Opponents are counting on the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the education restrictions. In 1982 the court invalidated a Texas law barring illegal aliens from public schools, holding that "penalizing the child is an ineffectual -- as well as unjust -- way of deterring the parent." Even the dissenting opinion acknowledged that "it would be folly -- and wrong -- to tolerate the creation of a segment of society made up of illiterate persons." But the decision split 5 to 4, and the ballot measure's proponents are hoping a new court will reopen the issue...
...Hoop Dreams" is a tragedy of bad advice. Bad advice begins with bad fathers, or more aptly, absent fathers. Both Arthur Age and William Gates, the two young players whose high school careers this film traces, grow up in single-parent homes. This fact becomes central to the narrative of their lives as time and time again they are manipulated by would-be fathers--be they coaches, recruiters, or corporations...
...burglar slipped into one of the government's most tightly-patrolled offices and made off with a TV, a radio and other sundries. On Oct. 18, it said, someone apparently slipped through a second-story window into the Office of Foreign Assets Control -- across the street from its majestic parent building, the Treasury Department -- and left footprints all over tables, evading a 24-hour guard and an elaborate computer security set-up. BTW: The office itself already had headaches, since a federal grand jury, the Treasury inspector general and congressional committees are probing its conduct in trade embargo cases.Post your...
...Phenomenon: If kids are slain, a parent is often the culprit...
...where she built her reputation by deftly managing first the magazine's book and theater departments, then its news sections. She edited dozens of PEOPLE cover stories, including those on the Polly Klaas kidnapping and the Baby Jessica DeBoer case. The latter was particularly meaningful to Aitken, a single parent who adopted her daughter Sophie, 3, in Bulgaria after a two-year search for a child. "Lee has an amazing way of expanding the dimensions of a story, making it grow beyond the confines of its narrative," says senior editor Howard Chua-Eoan, a former PEOPLE editor himself. "She will...