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...incredibly insecure and very self-torturing," says Merrill Markoe, his former girlfriend, who helped create Late Night, devised such popular bits as Stupid Pet Tricks and wrote for the show until 1986. "He doesn't ever reward himself for a job well done. He always feels that he screwed up. In fact, in all the years I knew him, I never once heard him say he thought something went pretty well. The most he ever gives himself is remarks like, 'Well, I guess that stuck to the tape...
...best interests of children to be with their families, unless for some reason the family is inadequate," says Carole Anderson, vice president of Concerned United Birthparents, which is trying to restrict adoptions and strengthen the rights of birth parents to regain custody of children they have released. To reward the DeBoers' intransigence by letting them keep the child, Anderson says, would put all families in jeopardy. "If a noncustodial parent can come along and take a child in defiance of a court order," she says, "and get to another state and get a different order, we would have chaos...
...resumed limited food distribution in southern Mogadishu after two weeks of fighting between its forces and those of Somali General Mohammed Farrah Aidid. It also issued wanted posters for the fugitive warlord, and put up a reward for his capture. Aidid, meanwhile, taunted his pursuers in a broadcast carried by NBC and the Voice of America. "You know," he said, "I am here in the city of Mogadishu and I am protected by God and my people...
Hopefully, these same voters will prove the senators wrong and give them a just reward for their cynical "no" votes--by voting "no" to their re-election...
...camera, cover coordinator Linda Freeman and assistant picture editor Mary Worrell Bousquette, who work behind the scenes, also deserve accolades. Freeman, for instance, had the challenging task of making arrangements for the group portrait of child movie stars by Heisler that appears on page 62. Says she: "My greatest reward is working with these talented artists." Bousquette edited the pictures that appear inside. "I wanted our story to show the many faces of fatherhood," she says. At least in this issue, those fathers are seen as well as heard. Sorry, Oscar...