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Damon said he hoped to use his celebrity status to draw attention to the plight of Harvard's workers...
...United States, her mother died, leaving Sophonie without care. Unlike a more well-known young motherless child, Sophonie has drawn no crowds. No marches or national work boycotts are being held in her honor. No one calls her survival a "miracle." The public is largely indifferent to Sophonie's plight because she comes from the island of Haiti rather than the island of Cuba...
...from the Monmouth County Boy Scout Council might never have known, since Dale didn't have much contact with them from college. But on July 8, 1990, the Newark daily newspaper ran an earnest article about the plight of "homosexual teenagers," of whom Dale was still one. He had spoken at a conference on why gay teens commit suicide at high rates, and his picture appeared, showing him gesticulating next to a lesbian fellow student...
...about a missing laptop computer belonging to the State Department. The machine is said to have contained highly sensitive files, including intelligence sources and information about weapons proliferation. Though it is still unclear whether the laptop in question was stolen or lost, the case has drawn attention to the plight of government secrets in the computer age. One the one hand, the digital revolution has made information considerably easier to transfer and access; on the other, it's making information ... easier to transfer and access. And that can spell bad news when you're charged with guarding computer files that...
...What began as a human catastrophe (refugees drown at sea, motherless boy picked up by kindly fishermen) has been turned into something far less redeeming than a circus. When this fifth-rate soap opera began, there was talk of various positive, if peripheral, consequences. Could this little boy's plight push the U.S. government into a more reasonable relationship with Cuba? Would there be a heartwarming and speedy reunion between Elian and his father? Might the members of the American media be able to act like adults and take this for what it is: an intensely private family tragedy...