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...What would be a "normal" reaction for a parent faced with the loss of her children? She might have found a natural ally in Marc Klaas, who since the kidnapping and murder of his daughter Polly Klass in October 1993 has devoted himself to helping parents in a similar plight. He flew to South Carolina with Jeanne Boylan, a cognitive artist with a background in psychology who has produced remarkably accurate suspect sketches in the Klaas case and many others. The sketch of the carjacker was so generic as to be useless, and Boylan thought she might be able...
...Politicians are ducking the plight of small property owners," Callahan punned...
...different sort from today's "gritty" cop shows or socially conscious TV movies. The Mother deals with a social problem -- what is best for old people? -- yet it has no agenda, makes no statements, foments no outrage. There are no bad people to blame for the old woman's plight: a self-involved son, say, or a callous bureaucrat. Even the garmentmaker who fires her is a decent man under cruel commercial pressures. Nor does Chayefsky rail against "the system." If there's any culprit, it is simply -- pardon the expression -- the human condition...
Torn between a desperate plight and a radical plan, the parents, teachers and politicians who jammed the decrepit Hartford Board of Education building in Connecticut last week agonized over their chance to make history...
Whatever the practical benefits of the conference, few denied its symbolic importance. One delegate likened the event to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting: countries drew comfort from the plight of other countries, and together they resolved to deal with the mutual problem. As this delegate saw it, "Muslim nations said to other Muslim nations, 'It's O.K. to support family planning,' as did Catholic nations to other Catholic nations." Thus, the consensus achieved in Cairo may allow the world community to move beyond divisive debates about abortion and contraception in dealing with the population juggernaut. The accord may signal...