Word: reunion
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...counselors try to find them shelters, drug treatment and job training. More than 60% of youths ages 12 to 17 who seek help at the center are diverted from the street. At Options House, a shelter in Hollywood, 40% of youths counseled are reunited with their families. But family reunion is not always desirable. Says executive director Leslie Forbes: "Sometimes we'll call the families, and they'll say, 'So you've got the little bastard? Well, you can keep him!' " That leaves group homes, foster care or the streets. "Either they get connected to a service quickly, or they...
...honor bound to believe each tearful young mother, to pray for the dog-and-helicopter searches and to wear psychological, if not literal, yellow ribbons. But even as we do so, again and again, we are coming to realize that the climax of such searches is seldom a tearful reunion or even an apprehended bad guy. Far more often, it is a recanting, a tormented regression from "she was stolen" to "she fell" to "I may have dropped her" to "I hit her with a big rock...
When Peggy B. Schmertzler '53 returned for her 35th Radcliffe Reunion, she had some questions about what life was like today at Harvard-Radcliffe...
That was in 1988. And when she returned five years later for her 40th Reunion, she had some answers. After having chaired an ad hoc committee to investigate the current status of women students and faculty, she realized it was about time to start pressing the administration for changes...
...South Korean army lieutenant was reported killed in action during the Korean War, and he had been forgotten, even by his family. But all those years Cho was alive in North Korea. Last week he finally made it home and recounted his story in a tearful hospital reunion with his sisters and brother in Seoul. He says he was captured by Chinese soldiers and forced to fight in the North Korean army. When he tried to escape, he was sentenced to 12 years in a notorious gulag where so many inmates died of hunger, cold and beatings, he said, that...