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...plight of aging inmates has its ironies. In prison they have virtually unlimited access to medical care, while ailing seniors who have walked the straight and narrow often do without because they can't afford soaring health-care costs. What's more, inmates who have spent 30 or 40 years in prison frequently have no family members to care for them. Most states have limited halfway-housing programs for relatively healthy elderly ex-cons, but they can accommodate just a fraction of those in need. "We are constantly faced with low-risk, high-cost prisoners who should be moved into...
STOLEN MOMENTS Most divorced fathers care deeply about their kids and pay child support. Yet 4.5 million of them say their ex-wives block them from contact with their children. While these so-called deadbolted dads say courts have turned a deaf ear to their plight, backing for them is growing. Groups like the American Coalition for Fathers & Children have been lobbying legislatures for better access and visitation laws. They also distribute manuals that teach dads their rights and offer tips on such topics as finding a good lawyer...
...under the umbrella of nato because it is the agent of the U.S., which we openly term an enemy of the Muslim world. So let the U.N. assume responsibility for solving the crisis. We don't want to see any more pictures of war-torn Kosovo and the miserable plight of its people. We want the conflict properly settled soon. ALIYA SHAHNOOR AMEEN Chittagong, Bangladesh...
Molly Hennessy-Fiske '99, the Radcliffe orator, spoke of the historical plight of women over the last century--but cited the progress made by female members of her own class who have risen to the top of campus student organizations...
...Jesus was born in the slum," Jackson said, comparing Christ's plight to that of countless disenfranchised groups in the U.S., "to an unmarried mother, who didn't have the right to vote, who didn't have the right pedigree. He was born outside, with the smell of manure. Jesus was born in the slum, but the slum was not born...