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...totally a pain," Deborah A. Patz '88 said. "Since we have to be around here, they might as well give us food. Dinner would be better than lunch...
...voluntarily getting fingerprinted. The phenomenon has swept communities throughout the nation; it has sometimes been spurred by a local tragedy, sometimes by the many articles about missing children or the recent film Without a Trace, based loosely on the disappearance in 1979 of a New York City youngster, Etan Patz. The purpose of the fingerprinting is to aid law enforcement agencies in the event that one's child becomes one of the 50,000 who are abducted by strangers each year...
MISSING FLORIDA BOY FOUND DEAD AFTER LONG SEARCH. CALIFORNIA MAN SURRENDERS KIDNAPED BOY AFTER 7 YEARS. The tragedy of the kidnaped child is society's meanest joke on the fussy optimism of parents. Without a Trace, loosely based on the disappearance of six-year-old Etan Patz from a SoHo street in 1979, is an earnest, fatally muddled attempt to dramatize this dilemma. A boy is missing; his mother (Kate Nelligan) and father (David Dukes) wait and wait, not daring to despair; a sympathetic detective (Judd Hirsch) trudges after tantalizing leads; a kind of life goes...
Jaffe--who produced the Academy Award winning Kramer vs. Kramer, Goodbye Columbus, and Taps--said he was attracted by the human drama in Beth Gutcheon's adaptation of her novel Still Missing, based loosely on the real-life disappearance of Etan Patz. He added that he felt capable of directing this screenplay without worrying about his lack of acting experience because it was straightforward and unpretentious: A middle-class couple, very successful woman and her estranged husband are unexpectedly victimized by their son's disappearance. Instead of making a detective flick in which the main plot focused on the police...
...northeast, above the so-called Motagua Fault (see box). Even as dazed survivors stumbled out of the wreckage of 40 towns and villages, massive aid appeared. The first relief came from Guatemalans whose towns had been spared and who reached out to help. In the highlands village of Patzún, which had been almost totally leveled, a truck bearing tortillas and beans appeared; it had been sent from the town of Santiago Atitlán, 70 miles away. The trip had taken seven hours as the travelers picked their way carefully around landslides. But Mayor Pedro Sosof Mesias...