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Violent outbursts and emotional detachment in older children adopted internationally are "very familiar to those of us in the field, as sad as it may be," says Michael Goldstein, an adoption attorney in Rye Brook, N.Y. Older adopted children often arrive in their new homes after being taken away from or abandoned by abusive parents. In the case of Russian adoptees, children have to spend at least a year in an orphanage before the country deems them eligible for international adoption. It can take years for older adopted children to fully integrate into their new families; some never...
...hall staff is always willing to bring out whatever isn’t out front. This last point should be emphasized: Currier’s dining hall staff is out of this world. As for brain break, though it may be decimated by 10 p.m., rye bread and grape jelly are always by the toaster for those returning late from Lamont...
...ever try to make your own moonshine? I did, and it's harder than it seems. I started with George Washington's recipe for rye whiskey. I reduced it to make it with a pound of rye and a pound of corn. It was hard to do, and I made a mess. I ended up with an ounce, maybe an ounce and a half of booze that turned my face numb and tasted like cocoa powder. There were frustrating moments, but they were mostly hilarious. I'm pretty bad at this...
Among American novels, maybe only Huckleberry Finn rivals Catcher in the Rye in luring readers to imagine the young character’s "life" that follows the book’s end. Twain teasingly ventured in his autobiography that Huck became "a justice of the peace in a remote village in Montana and was a good citizen and greatly respected." An essayist in Time conjured Holden at 40 as a Columbia alum who left his PR job to become a country club golf pro; divorced and remarried with two daughters, he ended up teaching at a prep...
...even J.D. Salinger isn't above the law. In the future, Catcher in the Rye and his handful of short stories will have to go into the public domain, where they're open game. But don't hold your breath. That will be in 2080. Is that Holden Caufield we hear snickering...