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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...
...think everyone’s still in the stage where they’re trying to understand it,” freshman Laura Gemmell said. “Obviously people are sad, and they really respect Baj as a coach...
...enjoy many Joel Stein columns, but "Anxiety of Influence" was not awesome [March 29]. I found it ignorant and sad that Stein described his wife's comment "God, I hope [our son] doesn't have Asperger's" as "trash-talking." If he did face such a challenge, Joel, would you love him any less...
...hoping that this will work, that you don’t need to essentially take money from special interests to be elected,” he said. “If that’s what it takes to be elected, I think that’s a sad indictment on the state of our electoral system...
...since the sheer size of the institutions makes painless, prepackaged liquidation unlikely. He worries about loopholes that exempt certain highly profitable derivatives from federal oversight. But most of all, he believes the current Senate plan, which relies on the wisdom of bank regulators, won't prevent another crisis. "The sad reality is that regulators had substantial powers," he announced during another Senate-floor speech in March, "but chose to abdicate their responsibilities." (See the 10 greatest speeches of all time...