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...clearly seeing an increasing number of kindergartners and first-graders coming to our attention for aggressive behavior," says Michael Parker, program director of psychological services at the Fort Worth Independent School District, which serves 80,000 students. The incidents have occurred not only in low-income urban schools but in middle-class areas as well. Says Parker: "We're talking about serious talking back to teachers, profanity, even biting, kicking and hitting adults, and we're seeing it in 5year-olds." And these are not the kids who have been formally labeled emotionally disturbed, says Nekedria Clark, who works...
...equal parts domestic drama, agitprop and Scripture. It follows two New York City couples: Prior Walter (Justin Kirk), who is sick with AIDS, and his lover Louis Ironson (Ben Shenkman), who abandons Prior, unable to cope with his illness; and Joe and Harper Pitt (Patrick Wilson and Mary-Louise Parker), a closeted gay Mormon lawyer and his disturbed, pill-popping wife. Around them orbit historical and mythological figures: Roy Cohn (Al Pacino), the diabolical former aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy who is gay, closeted and stricken with AIDS; the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg (Meryl Streep), whom Cohn, by pulling strings...
...management team led by current CEO Doug Parker, 41, was in the process of transforming the airline when 9/11 hit. Parker was first to ask for--and receive--a government loan guarantee from the Air Transportation Stabilization Board (ATSB), which had $10 billion to dole out in such guarantees. Barely three months after the attacks, America West was handed a $379.6 million loan-guarantee package. In return, the government demanded severe limits on labor costs and took 19 million stock warrants giving it the right to buy shares...
Harvard began to pull away as the first half drew to a close on the strength of three-pointers by Tubridy, Holsey and Peljto. The Crimson stretched the lead to 12 before Lady Flames guard Michelle Parker connected on a jumper with 11 seconds left in the half to close the Harvard lead...
After the game, BU coach Jack Parker expressed frustration at his team’s inability to find the back of the net, but more emphasis should have been placed (and was on the other side of the ice) on Grumet-Morris’ ability to completely cover his crease...