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Before the Foster controversy blew up--and gave them a common enemy--the abortion issue was threatening to scatter and distract the G.O.P. Both the Roman Catholic Church and the National Right to Life Committee recently declared their opposition to the part of the Republican welfare bill that calls for cutting off aid to pregnant teens because they fear it will encourage abortions. ``There is a concern that it will increase the likelihood that poor women, including teen moms, may see few options besides aborting their child, particularly if there is a prohibition on increasing benefits for additional children born...
...Painter children decided to go alone last Thursday to scatter their mother's ashes around the oceanfront she loved. It was a mistake, and it wrenched their quiet memorial out of control. Despite warnings of rough weather, they chose a point of land well out to sea and only 20 ft. above the ocean. That wasn't enough to protect them from the huge wave that exploded 25 ft. upward and knocked them into the water...
...that he has killed himself in a Philadelphia hotel room. Later, still bereaved but completely broke, she appears on Hollywood Squares and, less than two months after Edgar is buried, returns to the stand-up circuit. (Sample joke: "My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at + Neiman Marcus . . . That way I'd visit him every day.") All this reactive, forced levity doesn't sit well with Melissa, who throws tantrums and winds up in the arms of an abusive, cocaine-addicted boyfriend before she gets herself straightened...
...there that he learned the power of racial stereotypes. Tall and dark complexioned, Staples noticed he inspired fear in whites when he approached on the sidewalk. At first he sought to reassure them by whistling Vivaldi. Then he found malicious glee in frightening them in a game he called "scatter the pigeons." One night he hid in the shadows, then sprang in front of a white couple: "The two of them stood frozen as I bore down on them. I felt a surge of power: these people were mine . . . If I had been younger, with less to lose...
...steal at exactly $1,000 and ideal for a dorm room is a 20 year-old southwest Persian tribal rug from Chiraz, 5 by 8, pile weaving; or semi-antique Kilims ($995) and scatter-rugs ($895) with natural dyes from Church Street Rugs, 28 Church Street...