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...have appealed to them more than 50 times. You can refer to the Friday prayer sermons, which I use to educate the public. I completely reject ((hostage taking)). There is a difference between my opposition to American policy and physically harming American people...
...before tremulously placing the call, Szymczak journeyed to the tiny public library in her mother's hometown 300 miles from Chicago. "My fantasy," she explains, "was to open a high school yearbook and see a woman who looked like me." On page 15 of the 1952 yearbook, Szymczak's fantasy came true. The smile was the same one Szymczak saw in the mirror; the graduation quote: "I'm just the girl you're looking for." The long search ended with a three-hour call from a pay phone. By the end of the conversation, it was after midnight...
Searches can take unexpected turns. San Antonio public school counselor Claude Thormalen, 49, not only found his mother but learned from her that he had an older half sister Nancy, who had also been given up for adoption. To his amazement, Nancy turned out to be a high school acquaintance. Gayle Beckstead, 55, who now works as a search consultant in Simi Valley, Calif., learned of a sister -- who hadn't been put up for adoption. When they met, Gayle found a depressed high school dropout who had given up four out-of- wedlock children. The sister regarded the middle...
Coen said he thought some collaboration betweencorporate research staffs and academic scientistswas beneficial. "The restrictions on sharing couldbe counter-productive to public interest," hesaid
...Twenty new federal judges would be nice," saidLecturer in Public Policy Mark A.R. Kleiman, "butit doesn't have anything to do with fighting thewar on drugs...